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> The highest carrier frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%) carries at least one copy of the Neanderthal risk haplotype and
by johncena33 6y ago
> The highest carrier frequency occurs in Bangladesh, where more than half the population (63%) carries at least one copy of the Neanderthal risk haplotype and 13% is homozygous for the haplotype.
As a Bangladeshi now living outside of the country, I am not sure what to make of it. We didn't have any proper lockdown AFAIK. In a country with huge amount of poor populace, it's almost impossible to do mandate people to stay in home when they don't have means to live. Thus COVID is very widespread, although not reported because of lack of testing. Even with all that, COVID didn't cause much harm to the population. Albeit, all of it is ancedotal.
- ImaCake 6y agoProbably helps that Bangladesh’s population pyramid tends to towards the young. So there just aren’t that many old people to get sick and die. Of course, this disease is just subtle enough that it might fly under the radar without statistics to bring its havoc to light.
- jariel 6y agoAverage age Bangledesh: 27, USA, 37, also, my bet is the curve drops hard at the older echelons, and since 85% of deaths are among the elderly, COVID just finds it hard to kill a lot of people in those places.