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And, what with relaxing the new Senate dress code, this fellow could double for the PA Senator...
Posted on 09/18/2023 6:14:01 PM PDT by Libloather
They used to live in caves, hunt their food and were generally tougher than modern-day humans.
But a new study finds if you have Neanderthal genes, you are twice as likely to develop a life-threatening form of Covid.
DNA from the species that went extinct around 40,000 years ago is associated with autoimmune diseases, type 2 diabetes and prostate cancer.
A team of Italian researchers found people with three Neanderthal gene variations were twice as likely to have severe pneumonia and three times as likely to be hospitalized with a ventilator after contracting the virus.
While the findings were part of an experiment, people can investigate how much Neanderthal DNA they have using commercial ancestry tests.
Neanderthals were a close human ancestor who mysteriously died around 40,000 years ago.
The species lived in Africa with early humans for millennia before moving across to Europe around 300,000 years ago.
They were later joined by humans, who entered Eurasia around 48,000 years ago, and mated, which led to some genes appearing in humans today.
The new study, published in the journal iScience, was led by researchers with the nonprofit Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research.
The team analyzed a sample of nearly 1,200 people in the Bergamo province, home to the pandemic's epicenter in early 2020.
Scientists found that 33 percent of people in Bergamo with the Neanderthal haplotype, a set of DNA variants along a single chromosome that tend to be inherited together, developed severe cases of Covid.
More than 75 percent of the participants were born in the Bergamo province, chosen as the sample region due to the severe cases and deaths associated with Covid.
In March 2020 alone, 670 people died in this city of 120,000 inhabitants and almost 6,000 in the province of the same name...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
People with Neanderthal genes are TWICE as likely to beat the crap out of nancy men who scream at them for not wearing masks
So those of us who are of Reptillian descent are probably safe?
Well, I guess that makes sense since we Reptillians are the ones who commissioned the creation of Covid in the first place.
Wouldn’t that be more like Sinanthropus pekinensis’ ?
(Peking’s Man).
I only wear blue-genes these days. Don’t know where I put my neanterthal-genes. A good thing, I guess. (Just an sample of how I react post-Fauci Flu when I read the attempted thoughtful consideration-ending words “experts say” and “studies show”.)
We must purge the outsiders.
5 Million Years to Earth (aka Quatermass and the Pit) (1967)
Just stop! 😂😂
Caught it, or died from it?
Blacks tend to have more co-morbidities, although if one shops at a Wal-Mart in a mostly rural / white area in my neck of the woods (mid-South), you’d never know it...
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And, what with relaxing the new Senate dress code, this fellow could double for the PA Senator...
Yup. Wads of cash.
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