• Re: COVID-19 demographics

    From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Mike Powell on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 16:33:43
    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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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JEFF THIELE on Thursday, October 27, 2022 18:40:00
    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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