I wasn’t one of them. There were some who had theories about it, but they weren’t the ones using that to play down the threat.
Arizona state health department tells modeling team to stop work
Tuesday afternoon, an ADHS spokesman sent ABC15 an email explaining the decision.
It said, “The reason that ADHS is pausing the internal modeling is, as we have said before, we are looking at several national models and have determined that FEMA is the most accurate to help us develop and implement public health interventions to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.”
I always suspected the ‘it only kills asians’ were in denial.
Having said that, I would think in southern china near the bat caves, you’d find a reasonable distribution of CV resistant genomes. Just because living near that risk would have selectively eliminated the very susceptible.
If you want to find a treatment, looking for those SNPs would be a great place to start...