Black Immunity: Racial discrimination or genetic susceptibility? | ||||
| Middle East Journal of Medical Genetics | ||||
| Volume 10, Issue 1, October 2021 PDF (210.36 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.4103/mxe.mxe_1_21 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Shibu Sasidharan; Harpreet S. Dhillon; Shalendra Singh; Babitha Manalikuzhiyil; Gurpreet Dhillon | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to sweep across the world, and while it does, disturbing associations between race and disease have gone even more viral. On social media, theories of black people's immunity to COVID-19 spread rapidly and widely, with the initially small number of cases in Africa often cited as evidence. Since then, the virus has spread to the continent and has already exacerbate already compromised health systems. This article tries to find the association between black race and immunity. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| black immunity; racism; Genetics; immunity | ||||
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