X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fthe-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md;h=f0fea9421fa14bc432811054b18f7675acfec4ba;hp=736333de7bd1c1695b410bac6740bc6ac9798f07;hb=9a7311b8a7670834c05eb41fd42e8d5aea96f22c;hpb=222f3221c86ff7a64a0ab7fd6b5a904a7c0a594c diff --git a/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md b/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md index 736333d..f0fea94 100644 --- a/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md +++ b/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ But how does Samuel _know_ this? I agree that an accumulation of factors from ce In the case of people of African descent, I think we _do_ have a specific candidate for a biological difference affecting COVID-19 outcomes. A randomized clinical trial found that +"Autumn COVID-19 surge dates in Europe correlated to latitudes, not to temperature-humidity, pointing to vitamin D as contributing factor" +https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81419-w + https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16549493/ @@ -20,6 +23,8 @@ https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/#supplementation-studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism +https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3872/rr-5 + [racialists get annoyed that people use "skin color" as a metonym for "race", but in this case, we actually are talking about skin color!] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_graph