Did genetics prove that COVID affects and kills East Asians at higher rates compared to other races?

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In December 2019 and early months of 2020, I recall seeing a study and a chart that showed that East Asians are very vulnerable to COVID. South Asians were 2nd most vulnerable to dying. I think Africans were 3rd most vulnerable and Whites were least vulnerable to COVID.

Now, COVID is over. I tried, but I cannot find that study. Was that study correct?

This was the closest one I found. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-05-researchers-uncover-gene-doubles-risk-death-covid-19 Sixty percent of people with South Asian ancestry carried this higher-risk version of the gene compared to 15 percent of those with European ancestry – explaining in part the higher death rates and hospitalisations in the former group. The study also found that 2 percent of people with Afro-Caribbean ancestry carried the higher risk genotype, meaning that this genetic factor does not completely explain the higher death rates reported for black and minority ethnic communities.

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/covid-19-cases-and-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-current-data-and-changes-over-time/ This American data shows that Asians have the lowest death rate and Hispanics have highest death rate. It is weird because COVID kills obese and unhealthy people. Blacks are the most obese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/media/File:ObesitySexRace2016.png

Has any study tried controlling for income and health to see if East Asian genetics ended up leading to higher COVID death rate? What do others think?

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    [–]oligarchracy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    There was a study that suggested ashkenazi Jews were far more likely to have some kind of enzyme that helped provided resistance to the virus. I dont think any further studies were done on the subject(outside of top secret ones in Israel), but it is a little suspicious and makes one recall earlier efforts by the Israelis to create bioweapons that targeted Arabs. I don't know if covid was created in an Israeli bioweapons lab and then later released into Wuhan in order to frame the Chinese, but I certainly wouldn't rule it out. Of course even if it was true no one would ever be allowed to objectively research such a thing.

    [–]TrabWhite Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The earlier strand of the virus was more lethal. Definitely racked up a lot more bodies in China, but as the more lethal strand died out the less lethal one spread more hence how by the time it reached other parts of the world less people were dying from it

    [–]oligarchracy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The notion that Asians were more susceptible to covid was quickly debunked early on in the pandemic when it spread like wild fire through Europe and elderly people in Italy were dropping like flies. Followed by it spreading through the US and elsewhere. Overall it seems that Asian nations fared a little better than most, and as Robert Kennedy Jr pointed out, there was a study that suggested Asians were less susceptible to it, with the same study showing evidence that Ashkenazi Jews were even less susceptible to covid that just about anyone else.