[Black Agnes]

I know why Sweden hasn’t been hit hard...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142305/

“Reduced Macrophage Infiltration and Demyelination in Mice Lacking the Chemokine Receptor CCR5 Following Infection with a Neurotropic Coronavirus”

Has nothing to do with any shutdown or lockdown policy. Has everything to do with genetics:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030339

[Black Agnes]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1255740/

Check the map in this publication.

Explains the surprisingly ‘easy’ time of it Eastern Europe has had...

[mad_as_he$$]

plos link. Thanks for that. Interesting.

[RummyChick]

given the supposed HIV inserts which some say is not true....the HIV part of this is interesting

https://bmcmedgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12881-019-0913-9

Prevalence of CCR5delta32 in Northeastern Iran

This study was the first investigation for an assessment of the prevalence of CCR5∆32 in northeastern Iran. The low prevalence of CCR5∆32 allele in the Iranian population may result in the increased susceptibility to HIV-1. In addition, this prevalence is the same as that of reported in East Asia, while is lower than that in the Europeans.
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. The CCR5-delta 32 mutation in a sense locks "the door" which prevents HIV from entering into the cell. 1% of people descended from Northern Europeans, particularly Swedes, are immune to HIV infection. https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/hiv_resistant_mutation/