On 26 Oct 2022, Mike Powell said the following...

There are
diseases that do indeed affect persons of different ethnic and genealogic
backgrounds than do others. Research into whether or not COVID was of them would be of interest and might help put things into context

Indeed, it's been well-documented that due to a combination of genetics various stressors associated with generational poverty, black people inf with COVID-19 were more likely to die than white people with COVID-19.

So there have been genetic reasons documented? I only seem to ever hear the latter, which should also mean that Apalachians should have been
dying at a higher rate for the same reasons.

It seems that there are variants of the APOL1 gene that are largely only present in people of West African descent. While these variants can help against African sleeping sickness, they can also make people more vilnerable
to complications from HIV and COVID-19.

Jeff.

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There are
diseases that do indeed affect persons of different ethnic and genealogic
backgrounds than do others. Research into whether or not COVID wa
of them would be of interest and might help put things into contex

Indeed, it's been well-documented that due to a combination of genetics
various stressors associated with generational poverty, black people in
with COVID-19 were more likely to die than white people with COVID-19.

So there have been genetic reasons documented? I only seem to ever hear the latter, which should also mean that Apalachians should have been dying at a higher rate for the same reasons.

It seems that there are variants of the APOL1 gene that are largely only present in people of West African descent. While these variants can help against African sleeping sickness, they can also make people more vilnerable to complications from HIV and COVID-19.

Interesting. I also saw something on the local news yesterday that
mentioned the vaccines were more effective when the subject exercised regularly. Another reason not to become a couch potato. :)


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