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=d5f890f4738b48e7e22bce774640575d19facb83;hb=9a7311b8a7670834c05eb41fd42e8d5aea96f22c;hpb=70397d78915e796f2ecbfc64e1da4040200fbab4 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 d5f890f..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 @@ -13,11 +13,18 @@ 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/ +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 @@ -31,5 +38,6 @@ It's kind of nuts that we live in a world where I perceive opportunity in writin the U.S. has much fewer mixed-race people than Brazil specifically because of institutionalized racism (the one-drop rule discouraging intermarriage) https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2020/09/28/white-men-invented-everything/ +https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z ![](/images/covid_dag.svg)