They either made a lot of errors in design or they actually targeted healthy athletic types . And also, didn’t a lot of Chinese die before Americans even got sick ?
The Hou study documented the prevalence of variations in the ACE2 genes. Specifically, they correlated certain variations with increased susceptibility to COVID and noted the ethnic distribution of those variations.
However, the epidemiological data does not allow us to translate that distribution into ethnically based risk levels. The ACE2 genetic distribution may be a risk factor, but other factors such as comorbidities and access to decent healthcare look to be far more influential.
But this is typical for early research on the pandemic. Much of the early fear porn about COVID was based on the estimate that 80% of cases would be mild, ~17-18% would be severe, with 1-2% critical. In other words, ~20% of cases would need hospitalization.
That percentage was based on a single study of 44,000 patients in Wuhan in December 2019 through February 2020, but was the "official" guidance worldwide for the rest of 2020. No one ever went back and did a sanity check on the numbers.
Thank you for the clarification. RFK has a knowledge and understanding of these issues which would be difficult to put into lay terms, however you did it quite well, possibly best of all.
Thanks. The thing we all have to remember is that all clinical studies have to reconcile to the epidemiological data. The study RFK cited is intriguing, and carries most of the ramifications he asserts with regards to bioweapons research. However, like a lot of the early research, we have to moderate our understanding of it based on the case and mortality data that has accumulated since.
They either made a lot of errors in design or they actually targeted healthy athletic types . And also, didn’t a lot of Chinese die before Americans even got sick ?
The Hou study documented the prevalence of variations in the ACE2 genes. Specifically, they correlated certain variations with increased susceptibility to COVID and noted the ethnic distribution of those variations.
However, the epidemiological data does not allow us to translate that distribution into ethnically based risk levels. The ACE2 genetic distribution may be a risk factor, but other factors such as comorbidities and access to decent healthcare look to be far more influential.
But this is typical for early research on the pandemic. Much of the early fear porn about COVID was based on the estimate that 80% of cases would be mild, ~17-18% would be severe, with 1-2% critical. In other words, ~20% of cases would need hospitalization.
That percentage was based on a single study of 44,000 patients in Wuhan in December 2019 through February 2020, but was the "official" guidance worldwide for the rest of 2020. No one ever went back and did a sanity check on the numbers.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/narrative-fail-were-missing-some
RFK Jr is taking flak from all angles - must be onto something (many things).
If he got elected, he _would_ make it understood that there is _some_ connection between the vaccine schedule and autism.
That alone suggests he should get a lot better protection than his 2 untimely demised ancestors had...
Thank you for the clarification. RFK has a knowledge and understanding of these issues which would be difficult to put into lay terms, however you did it quite well, possibly best of all.
-Edwin
Thanks. The thing we all have to remember is that all clinical studies have to reconcile to the epidemiological data. The study RFK cited is intriguing, and carries most of the ramifications he asserts with regards to bioweapons research. However, like a lot of the early research, we have to moderate our understanding of it based on the case and mortality data that has accumulated since.
Thank you for addressing the RFKJr comments, I hope your article gets broadly distributed.
It may if you help :)
Thanks!