Subj : Re: COVID-19 demographics
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Wed Oct 26 2022 16:33:43

On 26 Oct 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> There are
 MP> >  MP> diseases that do indeed affect persons of different ethnic and
 MP> >  MP> genealogic
 MP> >  MP> backgrounds than do others.  Research into whether or not COVID was
 MP> >  MP> of them would be of interest and might help put things into context
 MP> > Indeed, it's been well-documented that due to a combination of genetics 
 MP> > various stressors associated with generational poverty, black people inf
 MP> > with COVID-19 were more likely to die than white people with COVID-19.
 MP> So there have been genetic reasons documented?  I only seem to ever hear
 MP> the latter, which should also mean that Apalachians should have been
 MP> 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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