Friday, September 18, 2020

Covid-19: Another Genetic Factor Emerges—Race Deniers Furious! - One factor may be whites' ability to process sunlight into vitamin C in northern climates









The time is long gone when CNN Talking Head Dr. Sanjay Gupta could flatly assert that Covid-19  “doesn’t discriminate based on race.” It does, albeit for reasons that are not fully understood. Now a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has presented evidence that a previously overlooked factor may be relevant: race differences in a gene which impacts how easily you can stop Covid-19 entering your body. 

There are clear race differences in the prevalence and deadliness of Covid-19 and, as I have previously reported, these differences persist even if you control for the socioeconomic factors that the Left insist are responsible for the disparities. For example, South Asian doctors in Britain’s NHS are much more likely to succumb than white doctors.  One factor for which a strong case has been advanced: the ability to synthesise UV Light into Vitamin D. Non-whites, in Western countries suffer from Vitamin D deficiency because their dark skin renders them less able to absorb UV Light and so synthesise it into Vitamin D. Europeans’ white skin probably evolved in winter darkness for this very reason. ...

https://vdare.com/articles/covid-19-another-genetic-factor-emerges-race-deniers-furious