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Ep. 1288 - Snow White Is Brown

The Michael Knowles Show

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COVID-19 and ACE2 Polymorphism Analysis

The idea that COVID could discriminate by race seems totally crazy, right? And as everybody was yelling and calling RFK a kook and a nut and an anti-Semite, I thought, well, let me just Google to see if any of this is true. This is a paper that was published in BMC Medicine. The analysis across the different groups, across the different populations, and it finds, well, exactly what he's talking about. It says that for African Americans and for white people, the risk is much higher. For East Asians,. the risk is relatively lower. And for Ashkenazi Jews, the risk isn't very high at all.

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