If you’ve read any of my posts about the 2019 nCoV that first appeared in Wuhan, you know that I’ve touted the coverage of it at PeakProsperity.com being done by Chris Martenson. They have a great page here, well worth bookmarking for their ongoing coverage of this rapidly changing story.
A few days ago, Chris talked about a study out of China (preliminary findings based on a small sample size) suggesting that males may be more susceptible to the virus than females. And today in a comment to this thread he linked to another very preliminary (not peer-reviewed) paper (Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2, the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov) suggesting (again based on a small sample size) that people of Asian descent may be more susceptible to 2019 nCoV than average and people of African or European descent may be somewhat less susceptible than average:
Chris notes that
At any rate, note that the highest concentration is in Japanese … presumably Japanese males. Consider also that Japan is a very aged population.
Granted, these are very preliminary findings that don’t factor in other variables. So for instance a healthy Japanese male might well be less susceptible to 2019 nCoV than an immune-system compromised Italian woman.
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Interesting indeed.
Is this variance thought to be by chance or by design?
That would open the evolution versus divine plan can of worms. Not touching that with a ten-foot pole. ;-)
The way Chris puts it,
Whew, only Colombians from Medellin. Was worried for a sec.
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