Originally posted by TheLurch
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One brute fact is the rate of infection, hospitalization, and fatalities are lowest in humans by a very large degree in the region of origin Southeast Asia and very South China of the related covid viruses are present in the animal populations related to the one that caused COVID-19, and in the Asia regions surrounding Southeast Asia are lower than the rest of the world. The pattern is very consistent with the known regional patterns of epidemics and pandemics in the relationship between humans and viruses.
Though there is a degree of uncertainty at present to the degree of natural evolved development of genetic and cultural resistance in human populations. I do not believe there is an adequate alternate explanation that accounts for the pattern of the extreme differences of regional impact of COVID-19 in the different regions of the world..
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