Three countries we hear are doing better than others with #coronavirus are Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. What do they have in common? Genes is one thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ger…
I need a fact-check, but I believe the NYC death counts include a high number of Chinese-American citizens. It is easy to imagine a genetic risk factor that is disguised by how well South Korea and Hong Kong mitigated.
Other disguising factors include air quality, population density, mass transit, humidity, international travel volume, average age, average health, housing, lying governments, availability of malaria meds, and more.
I worry that political correctness prevents us from being more aggressive in finding genetic markers. When the under-60 and healthy people die, you have to suspect genes in that situation.
Experts, correct me if wrong, but it seems to me that genetic testing is the easiest thing we could scale up, using existing samples from 23andMe-type companies to see who has high risk (assuming we find the genes responsible).
Of all the "back to work" strategies under consideration, identifying and protecting the genetically vulnerable might be the quickest and safest path to an "acceptable" death count. I believe a number of people are pursuing this path but we don't hear as much about it.
