The youngest member of the world's most prominent high IQ society is gaining national attention for her reading skills.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Isla McNabb lives in Oldham County, Kentucky, with her parents.

She was recently featured in the Washington Post and even in some international news outlets because of her impressive vocabulary and reading skills.

Her parents said Isla was tested at a psychologist's office in Lexington where they learned her IQ is in the 99th percentile.

"During the test, there was a part where she had to piece some shapes together. He would make a pattern out of the shapes and she would have to replicate them. So he split apart a circle and prompted her to piece it back together and she just looked up at him and said semi-circle? And I thought, 'Oh OK, maybe these results are going to be impressive then,'" said Isla's mom, Amanda McNabb.

Isla's parents say she's smart but she's also still a toddler.

When they're at home, Isla loves reading, playing outside, helping in the garden, and her cat, Booger.

This article was written by Evelyn Schultz for WLEX.

A COVID-19 survivor in Kentucky says the crippling effects of COVID-19 motivated her to help more people understand the importance of vaccines.

Six months after a near-death battle with the novel coronavirus, Janet Wright still struggles with lingering effects.

The virus forced the former pharmacist into early retirement last year, but she’s regained some strength and she’s using it to spread her story.

Wright works at the Baptist Health vaccine clinic in LaGrange, prepping vaccine shots once per week.

“Anybody that says that this condition is not real, I'd like to speak with them because it came home to me and I was completely independent working 40-plus hours a week and then forced to retire and work one day a week and that's about all I can do physically,” she told sister station WLKY on Wednesday.

In December, Wright's son found her unresponsive on the floor inside her home.

She spent three weeks in the hospital recovering, including days on a ventilator.

Six months have passed and she says she’s dealing with a range of symptoms and they are not the respiratory symptoms some other patients reported.

On top of attending physical therapy two to three times per week, a major complication has been esophageal strictures.

“Tightening and narrowing of the esophagus,” explained Wright, “and have had to have five surgical dilations for that, and it's not over yet — but I was unable to eat.”

“Before COVID, I was a diabetic. That was very well-controlled on oral medications. After COVID, I was insulin-dependent and that continues today,” she added.

Despite continued complications, Wright wants to be a part of the coronavirus solution. Angela Sandlin, the pharmacy director at Baptist Health LaGrange, called Wright’s hunger to help “inspiring.”

“She wasn't finished fighting. She wanted to fight for other people,” said Sandlin.

Wright said that working at the clinic gives her life new purpose.

“You have a purpose and the purpose is to prevent others from going through the same experience and to just beat COVID. That's something that can be done,” said Wright.