@BBCWorld I know Steve Wolf but he is wrong. Race is NOT a social construct as #CRT claimed. Health disparities are largely genetic. No single gene for race but African Americans have different gene network for hormone D that regulates immune system. #COVIDdeaths tracked D
Access to insurance & health care are factors & exposure risk, but sets of genes differ in different races. Sanofi Dengue fever vaccine worked well in Mex, Latin American. But in SE Asia it failed. Cause found to be genetic differences. It’s nonsense to claim race isn’t genetic.
I organized a conference on gene networks& disease in 2010. The Human Genome sequenced genes. The research on gene networks has developed over the last 20+ years. The peer reviewed literature in PubMed has hundreds of research papers on the genetic factors in health disparities.
But access for health care & insurance are factors associated with poverty, locality, not race.
The UK identified Vit (immune hormone)D as deficient in #COVID19 deaths/ICU/illness & recommendesd to British people to take a certain amount of D.African Americans have D deficiency due to different D gene network. It's all in peer reviewe medical literature. Wolf has bias. @NHS
Wolf also is stuck with his publications & funding based on #CRT which has inconveniently been proven wrong. It is in the peer reviewed literature on health disparities for anyone to look up @10DowningStreet But Vit D supplementation is an inexpensive intervention to help.
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