DNA is providing new clues to why COVID-19 hits people differently

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How sick will you get if you catch COVID-19? The answer may lie partly in your genes.

Evidence links many other genes to COVID-19 outcomes, multiple large studies have found. Some of those findings may hint at drugs that could better treat the disease.But the problem with all of these studies is that they can’t tell any individual what their chances are of a bad outcome from catching COVID-19. For instance, the DNA testing company 23andMe tells me that

. I don’t know whether that includes the variants that would make me more susceptible to severe disease or the ones that protect against infection. What if I got both? And how does that play with my blood type and all the other genetic variants I may carry? Then you have to factor in your age, your health, your environment. Let’s face it, that last one is probably the most important. For instance, if you have a job that exposes you to multiple people, you’re at higher risk of getting COVID-19 than someone who works from home.

There’s nothing you can do about the genetic hand you’re dealt . Many experts I talk to say that improving indoor air in public buildings is what is really needed to avoid infection. That’s also out of most people’s hands. But there are still things you can do to lessen your risk. Labaki’s advice to cancer patients — mask, avoid crowds, wash your hands — plus staying up-to-date on vaccinations is good for everyone.

 

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Same for the regular flu, right?

It all depends on your healthy you are,

Just ask if they are vaxed, it's pretty telling. Why can't science journalists actually report real science?

Just don’t worry about it.

The problem with big studies is that they do NOT care about that small variable that will sway their findings. They choose to ignore it instead as an acceptable parameter. Why? Time or money.

DNA has everything to do with how anyone responds to ANY illness.

If Covid ain’t in the Bible it doesn’t exist!

CCPBioWeapon Plandemic

Aaand what is the risk for long covid? I'd rather choose death over this sh*t

They 'can't'? Even in principle? That's an incautiously strong claim - and very different from the points raised in the article.

All any study gives you is a population probability which you can sometimes stratify by population (genetic, racial etc.).

Well start at black jack and craps your odds are best there than where your standing now. Lmao

And so is, Faith and Actitud, toward life.

Would be nice to figure out what specific people they were targeting when developing covid in the lab!

So can reading comprehension. Reading about Covid can prevent infections, hospitalizations and deaths. It’s easy to prevent Covid if you can read above a third-grade reading level.

Fortunately we have leaders that interpret the studies and make decisions for us.

I said this from day one it's a attack on DNA harvesting and to remove imperfect DNA

still calling colds covid 19 tells me you know nothing.

With or without mRNA injection?

Is this the one that escaped from a lab in China?

All i can say is, duh.

BMI plays a huge roll also.

I mean you could ask Dr fauci he made it and has been studying it sense 2004.

Rrrigt, just forward all medical questions to AMECA🤖

Typo: What determines one’s fate when they catch the Laboratory Modified Flu is complicated and somewhat mysterious.

So like what happens when you get the cold, flu or any other virus. Got it.

That's what you get when you are dealing with a genetically engineered Chimera.

Got it and it was like a mild flu

I would be astonished if it didnt

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