superdodger
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]superdodger (plural superdodgers)
- Someone especially resistant to a widespread infectious disease.
- 2022 September 7, Michaeleen Doucleff, “So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger?”, in NPR[1]:
- Over the course of human history, scientists have identified only two instances of true virus superdodgers. That is, where a specific mutation in their genes makes people completely resistant to a virus. So that it slides off their cells, "like water sliding off a glass window," as Casanova puts it.