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To: Snowy

Yeah. There is a report that asians, esp men have 5 times as many receptors in some lung cells that the virus targets.

” The result indicates that the ACE2 virus receptor expression is concentrated in a small population of type II alveolar cells (AT2). Surprisingly, we found that this population of ACE2-expressing AT2 also highly expressed many other genes that positively regulating viral reproduction and transmission. A comparison between eight individual samples demonstrated that the Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung.”

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full

PRELIMINARY study. But interesting finding.


8 posted on 02/07/2020 12:07:32 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Kozak

This is interesting. IF Asians are the only ones who get it, do you think the authorities should relay that? What a mess.


12 posted on 02/07/2020 12:19:35 PM PST by Snowy
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To: Kozak

That is interesting, thanks for posting.


19 posted on 02/07/2020 2:09:01 PM PST by Lady Heron
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