LONDON — A new study into ethnicity and the coronavirus by Britain’s national statistics agency suggests that people from almost all minority ethnic groups — except Chinese and those identifying as “mixed” — are at greater risk of a coronavirus-related death than the white population.
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From a biological / medical perspective there’s no explanation for this. A virus 's home is no different in a Black person than White one. If I put a set of lungs from a white person and another from a black person on a table NO ONE could tell the difference. If I mounted tissue from each and let a histopathologist look at the mounts he or she could NOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE. So what gives?
Not the virus not the host. How society places the hosts.
