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Indigenous Alaskans died from Covid-19 at nearly 3X the rate of white Alaskans
- xupybd 4y agoThere was a similar result with NZ Maori during the Spanish flu. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1918-influenza-pandemic/death-rates https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1918-influenza-pandemic/de... I wonder why Europeans do better with these diseases?
- hulitu 4y agoBecause disease spread easier in the past on the european continent due to wars and comerce. NZ was an isolated island and Alaska is not really accesible without special clothing and supplies.
- jleyank 4y agoThis and, I suspect, the relative levels of medical care. Check out how the indigenous fared in any country that maintains such a categorization. North America certainly deals a poor hand to its origin people.
- ethanbond 4y agoCenturies of organized destruction of indigenous cultures and their physical + social infrastructure? Obscene levels of poverty, less access to medicine, justified skepticism of state health initiatives, abysmal baseline health due to aforementioned, etc. Perhaps there’s some underlying biological/immune differences, but let’s not put too much effort into overlooking the obvious.
- treeman79 4y agoHave read several times that Europeans practice of animal husbandry built up immune systems over the centuries. So lots of deaths. But more spread out. Native Americans didn’t have same practices. So got hit a lot harder.
- ekianjo 4y ago> I wonder why Europeans do better with these diseases? Higher levels of Vitamin D is a factor - because Vitamin D intervenes in several immune system pathways.
- jayknight 4y agoCGP Grey explains: https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
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- dontlaugh 4y agoThe European descendants are less poor.
- ncmncm 4y ago> Alaska Native communities have long had some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in Alaska and in the U.S. So this is despite being vaccinated more. Lede buried.
- ipspam 4y agoWithout building houses for them, this infection rate is unstoppable. I know here in Northern Canada it's not uncommon to have a dozen Natives in a small house. The only way to help is with wealth increases. Everything else is theatre and destructive. What the government is going to hopelessly do to try to avoid this again, I don't know. I do know it won't work.