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The ‘super-immune’ residents living in an Italian town

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The small, rural Italian town of Vo' Euganeo was sealed off after recording Europe's first Covid death. But now some locals in the village have been dubbed the 'super-immunes' as their blood-tests show that they have an extraordinarily high number of antibodies which have grown rather than fallen as they've contracted the virus. What does this tell us about the fight against Covid-19?


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-Tom Whipple, Science editor at The Times.

-Tom Kington, Rome correspondent at The Times.


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