since you have a biochemistry back ground let me use broad terms that may somehow link up.
I always look to thalessemia since i have it when new information comes out and see how it ties into malaria..since malaria drugs seem to work with WUhan flu..and thalessemia may have evolved due to malaria
Listen to the biochemistry terms at around the 25 minute mark of the medcram video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj2vB_VITXQ&t=9s
You will find MANY articles linking those keywords with thalessemia...like
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC498206/
Increased erythrocyte superoxide dismutase activities in beta 0-thalassaemia/haemoglobin E and in haemoglobin H diseases.
There is a reason malaria drugs MAY provide benefit if given in early stages. People need to figure out why since malaria is due to a parasite.
ONe article I read today said that certain drugs based on artemisinin to combat malaria were not as effective with thalessemia beta patients because of some kind of barrier, etc.
There is a key somewhere with malaria and blood and Covid 19. Someone will eventually figure it out.
So now if you think of Italy...besides health care and amount of chinese..why did they have such a problem
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119900/
THe people there that have thalessemia will be mostly the kind that doe not require blood transfusions. btw, Iran has this issue too
Now, when you read this horror article you see many of the buzzwords used in that Medcram video. Keep in mind the lung doctor whose ferritin level was 18000 when it said normal was 400.
Novel Approach to Reactive Oxygen Species in Nontransfusion-Dependent Thalassemia
(After reading this I need to reassess my blood pressure medicine and other things...a lot GPs dont know jack about thalessemia.)
So if you did a similar search with Diabetes ...would you find the same biochemistry $$$$show. Perhaps those with Diabetes should research it.
So knowing thalessemia is possibly related to malaria evolution... scientists need to be looking at how people with thalessemia deal with this..and how effective malaria drugs are with it.
That horror article I linked are the kinds of issues people with Covid-19 are dealing with.
That ecgonine is only found as a metabolite of cocaine so that's confusing.