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For COVID to have an impact on the gene pool, it would have to be killing people within reproductive age. As of February 2021, only 11,000 people in the USA u
by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
For COVID to have an impact on the gene pool, it would have to be killing people within reproductive age.
As of February 2021, only 11,000 people in the USA under 45 died of COVID - and most would have been very sick with existing health conditions and unable to reproduce anyway.
There are 193,000,000 people in the USA in this age range, so the death risk from COVID is 0.006%
COVID is of no threat to young and healthy people so there will be no impact visible genetically.
- uncoder0 5y agoHmmm, wonder why this fact based comment is being down-voted.
- Throwawayaerlei 5y agoRaw data is here, is current as of May 10th: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/AH-Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Age-in-Yea/3apk-4u4f https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/AH-Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Coun... I haven't looked at it since February, the numbers then were around what ArkanExplorer is saying.