On 06/28/2020 09:17 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:51:07 -0700 > Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote:
<snip> >> However, it's likely that some populations are more susceptible than >> others, so it's >> not as extreme as bananas (clones) or even typical agricultural crops. > > yeah the asians are most susceptible. Oh, wait! That was YET ANOTHER > bullshit claim, but it turns out that flu hysteria in places like china, > korea or japan was over months ago or has a pretty low number of cases - or > both. I just saw a link to Zeberg and Pääbo (2020) The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals.[0] The abstract follows: | A recent genetic association study (Ellinghaus et al. 2020) | identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for | respiratory failure in SARS-CoV-2. Recent data comprising | 3,199 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and controls reproduce | this and find that it is the major genetic risk factor for | severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization (COVID-19 | Host Genetics Initiative). Here, we show that the risk is | conferred by a genomic segment of ~50 kb that is inherited | from Neandertals and occurs at a frequency of ~30% in south | Asia and ~8% in Europe. Maybe we ought to protect old people, those with serious health problems, and carriers of this genetic sequence, and let everyone else get on with their lives. <snip> 0) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.03.186296v1.full.pdf
