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Scientific studies showing COVID reaction based on race
National library of medicine ^ | Various

Posted on 07/15/2023 11:13:57 AM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook

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To: struggle
This, of course, is now being spun as some sort of racism, when the information comes straight from the Cleveland Clinic (I believe).

Almost all diseases show measurable "disparate impact" between different racial and ethnic groups. It should not be surprising that this would occur with COVID-19. It does lead to politically incorrect findings if such things are studied objectively.

The deadly serious questions is: Was COVID-19 engineered for lethal effects against specific ethnic groups?

Yes, that nightmare is a serious question which should be asked and answered. Such projects have been considered since the late 1940's but no technology was available to implement them. The "gain-of-function" research today can provide the necessary technology, and there are scientists willing to work on such things. They don't really understand how those things work. They are vicious children playing with explosives.

"Now you know it works. Any Questions?"

(Stephen King, The Stand, 1978)

21 posted on 07/15/2023 1:26:42 PM PDT by flamberge (It's all fun and games until somebody gets a poke in the eye.)
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To: gitmo
There were reports when the COVID virus was discovered in Wuhan, that the Wuhan laboratory was trying to create a virus that was deadly to Europeans but was harmless to Asians.

If that is true, the Chinese screwed up rather badly. The Wuhan product appears to be slightly more infective to Asian populations, and less infective to European and African populations.

Perhaps the only human test subjects they could get in the lab were Han Chinese prisoners. Or maybe things just don't work the same with laboratory rats and human beings.

22 posted on 07/15/2023 1:33:24 PM PDT by flamberge (It's all fun and games until somebody gets a poke in the eye.)
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To: Rattlesnake_Snook
A lot of obesity and elderly among the African-Americans and Europeans.

Yes, East Asians are elderly but they're skinny. And they already had immunity to the original SARS strain so that may had provided protection to covid.

23 posted on 07/15/2023 1:35:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SpaceBar

Not all Blacks reacted the same to COVID, and to the high profile comments and edicts on COVID.

Here in Atlanta several Black churches defied government and held crowded services. That with the backdrop that Nursing Homes bused the elderly to churches where the eldetly hugged the residents of other nursing homes and that was a form of contagious transmission.

The churches that did not close (Black, white, Hispanic) had no higher rate of COVID than those that did.

At the other extreme of population groups, sexually active hookers and their customers did not slack off. They also had no higher rate of COVID.

MARTA public transit has special Mobility buses that pick up the elderly and drive them around. The elderly who used MARTA had a much higher rate of COVID than similar elderly who did not use MARTA.


24 posted on 07/15/2023 1:59:43 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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To: Rattlesnake_Snook
From "New insights into genetic susceptibility of COVID-19: an ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis" BMC Med. 2020 Jul 15;18(1):216

"Human genetic factors may contribute to the extremely high transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 and to the relentlessly progressive disease observed in a small but significant proportion of infected individuals, but these factors are largely unknown."

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/

From "ACE2 coding variants in different populations and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 binding affinity" Biochem Biophys Rep. 2020 Dec; 24: 100798

"The susceptibility of different populations to SARS-CoV-2 infection is not yet understood. Here, we combined ACE2 coding variants' analysis in different populations and computational chemistry calculations to probe the effects on SARS-CoV-2/ACE2 interaction. ACE2-K26R; which is most frequent in Ashkenazi Jewish population decreased the SARS-CoV-2/ACE2 electrostatic attraction. On the contrary, ACE2-I468V, R219C, K341R, D206G, G211R increased the electrostatic attraction; ordered by binding strength from weakest to strongest. The aforementioned variants are most frequent in East Asian, South Asian, African and African American, European, European and South Asian populations, respectively."

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7439997/

So the studies from 2020 says "factors are largely unknown." and susceptibility is "is not yet understood." These are the kinds of words used in grant seeking, meaning more money for more studies.

These studies are now 2 and 1/2 to 3 years out of date.

Here's an interesting assertion: "Nationwide, Black people have died at 1.4 times the rate of white people." And yet Harvard says: "With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’ "

Source: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/with-covid-spread-racism-not-race-is-the-risk-factor/

25 posted on 07/15/2023 2:12:05 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: spintreebob

I have no idea what conclusions to draw from that comparison to those who rode MARTA. Please explain.


26 posted on 07/15/2023 3:10:31 PM PDT by nicollo ("This is FR!")
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To: nicollo

This special, expensive form of Federally Funded “public” transport was apparently a major communicator of COVID.


27 posted on 07/15/2023 3:16:26 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yup!


28 posted on 07/15/2023 8:22:01 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Can somebody explain the charts?

I can try.

To better understand the susceptibility of individuals from different populations to SARS-CoV-2 and their risk of infection, large scale sequencing projects should be performed. Integrating population genetics in SARS-CoV-2 studies will provide a new insight into the mystery of susceptibility, infection, pathogenicity and mortality in different regions.
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The sequencing projects will not only help us test the association between ACE2 variants and risk/severity of infection in certain populations, it will also allow more accurate analysis of variants for other host genes involved in the viral entry and pathogenicity.
Projects require funding. Larged scale projects require even more funding.
Charts explained. /cynicism
29 posted on 07/15/2023 9:58:36 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

There’s no “d” in Large.


30 posted on 07/15/2023 9:59:58 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: flamberge

And a 43/38% rate difference is a horribly poor differentiator between groups in any intentional bioweapon.


31 posted on 07/15/2023 10:20:24 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: flamberge

And even a 48/38% rate difference is a horribly poor differentiator between groups in any intentional bioweapon.


32 posted on 07/15/2023 10:21:05 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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"Can somebody explain the charts?"

Affinity between SARS-COV-2 and human ACE2, by variant; measured by electrostatic and van der Waals interactions.

~2.1 kcal/mol doesn't strike me as purposeful, but given the godless confucian hivemind and instructions given to Wuhan from Beijing, you can't rule out intent.

33 posted on 07/16/2023 8:28:15 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: lepton
And a 43/38% rate difference is a horribly poor differentiator between groups in any intentional bioweapon.

But well within observed natural occurrence for historical plagues. Think of what measles did to Native American populations compared to what it did to the Europeans. Or what the bubonic plague did to Europeans compared to Asians.

If the Chinese attempted to make an ethnic-selective virus, I believe they failed.

What I believe did happen was that a psychopathic world elite decided to reduce the world population by an engineered pandemic, to which they of course, would have immunization. Organizations that could develop such a thing got very reluctant to continue with the program, so they went shopping for more cooperative venues. First, they tried Canada, and when that got resistance, they tried China (Wuhan).

"Doing the work that Americans don't want to do", or some such thing.

A lot of things went wrong with the clever plan, including accidental early release of an unstable prototype, and failure to develop a real immunization treatment. Even so, "They" managed to improvise well enough to deploy the mRNA treatment to hundreds of millions of people. The panic and propaganda campaigns were generally successful, especially in the United States, where we see 75% - 80% "vaccination" rates.

The mRNA treatment was never intended to be the immunizer. It was intended to do pretty much what it is actually doing now - which is a "slow-burn" population reduction. But once again, things are not working as intended. A huge percentage of the injections were duds, as they thawed out before they could be used. Even those who were adversely afflicted may have some recourse to prevent further injury, if they are not already dead. And people have become suspicious. In spite of ongoing propaganda campaigns, the current uptake rate of new treatments and boosters is close to zero.

This posting is all just theory and assessment, posted for adult entertainment. Make of it what you will.

34 posted on 07/16/2023 11:02:14 AM PDT by flamberge (There is nothing like data to ruin a perfectly good theory.)
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