The Coronavirus

[Warren Dew]

(04-30-2020, 10:44 AM)David Horn Wrote: My understanding of the racial and, in the case of Latinx sufferers, ethnic impacts on health: once you factor for things like health insurance and housing/work density, the impacts more or less disappear.

A link to any study that shows that would be appreciated.  While it's a tenable hypothesis, in the case of the much higher rate among blacks, I haven't seen anything clearly showing the difference to be entirely genetic or entirely environmental. It's also possible that darker skin and the associated lower vitamin D levels makes the immune response less effective; it would be interesting to see an analysis examining and perhaps disproving that.

In the case of East Asians, I briefly entertained the hypothesis that the reason Pacific Rim countries did so well was because the virus had been bioengineered to be milder for them, but East Asians have the same rate in the US as whites, so that disproved the genetic theory in that case.