A small but significant number of people have an ancient gene variant from the extinct hominin that may double, or even quadruple, their risk of serious complications from COVID-19.

The finding, posted last week as a preprint on bioRxiv, shines a light on an enzyme called dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4). Scientists already know the protein allows another coronavirus, which causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS), to bind to and enter human cells. The new analysis, of DPP4 gene variants among COVID-19 patients, suggests the enzyme also provides SARS-CoV-2 with a second door into our cells, along with its usual infection route via the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2) receptor on cell surfaces.

The conclusion remains tentative.

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Most Europeans, Asians, and Native Americans harbor a handful of genes from Neanderthals, up 1.8% to 2.6% of their DNA, thanks to ancient dalliances between some of our ancestors and this close relative. The researchers had already uncovered evidence that having one chromosomal section traced back to Neanderthals could protect against COVID-19 whereas another, on chromosome 3, could make it worse.

By now, we all know that Covid-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer. Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people are getting the disease more often and suffering more severe outcomes than white Americans.

The most glaring statistic: 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have already died in this pandemic. In the US, Black residents have been dying at twice the rate of white residents.

There’s nothing about being Black, in and of itself, that makes people more biologically susceptible to Covid-19. Instead, the disproportionate impact is due to an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism.

When you reject a priori any biological reason, then whatever remains, no matter how unlikely, must be “an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism”.

Melinda Gates is among those making this argument. When Time magazine asked her who, aside from health care workers, should get first dibs on a vaccine, she said, “In the US, that would be Black people next, quite honestly, and many other people of color.”

But others have raised concerns. What if many non-Black people resent Black people for getting prioritized, heaping more stigma and racism on them? What if many Black people don’t feel comfortable being among the first in line for a new vaccine, given the horrific history of medical experimentation on African Americans? Some people of color expressed this worry in response to Gates, saying, “In other words, we’re the guinea pigs,” and, “We are not crash test dummies, we’ll go after you.”

This is just an extension of the age-old jew victimhood narrative to all non-Whites. Both sides openly take for granted that the goal must be to do whatever’s best for non-Whites, because they’re not White.

Whoever gets the vaccine, in whatever order, to whatever effect, at some point in the near future the same farcical non-argument will be played out again. Biological racial differences will make the biological one-size-fits-all vaccine produce different results racially, and the anti-White jewsmedia will screech that the non-Whites have once again been victimized by “systemic racism”.

Notably, modern human genomes contain evolutionary information tracing back tens of thousands of years, which may help identify the viruses that have impacted our ancestors – pointing to which viruses have future pandemic potential. Here, we apply evolutionary analyses to human genomic datasets to recover selection events involving tens of human genes that interact with coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, that started 25,000 years ago. THESE ADAPTIVE EVENTS WERE LIMITED TO ANCESTRAL EAST ASIAN POPULATIONS, THE GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN OF SEVERAL MODERN CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMICS. AN ARMS RACE WITH AN ANCIENT CORONA-LIKE VIRUS MAY THUS HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN ANCESTRAL EAST ASIAN POPULATIONS. By learning more about our ancient viral foes, our study highlights the promise of evolutionary information to combat the pandemics of the future.

My emphasis.

This is another confirmation of the fact that there are substantial genetic differences (affecting immune response in this case) between various “populations”, as well as a disconfirmation of the lame jewy post-war one-race-the-migrating-mixing-nigger-race platitudes concerning “our ancestors” and “our ancient viral foes” that the authors feel compelled to attach to it.

JAMA:

Given the essential role of TMPRSS2 in #SARSCoV2 entry, higher nasal expression of TMPRSS2 may contribute to the higher burden of #COVID19 among Black individuals https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2770682?guestAccessKey=1d6177f6-3c3f-456d-ad0b-0c13731a34be&linkId=99300969

There are numerous replies from jewesses with “MD” in their name insisting that “race is not biological” and “racism is the real cause”, telling JAMA to “do better”, by which they mean, “oy vey, shut it down”.

h/t Norvin Hobbs.

Here, we show that the risk is conferred by a genomic segment of ~50 kb that is inherited from Neandertals and occurs at a frequency of ~30% in south Asia and ~8% in Europe.

I.e. a racial bias.