https://www.researchgate.net/publication...SARS-CoV-2

So genes from archaic humans may have helped East Asians avoid the 2nd wave of the Wuhan virus!


"It is striking that East Asian, South East Asian and South Pa-cic Populations appear relatively unscathed by the second and subsequent waves of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic compared to the rest of the world. This is more so with the more infectious G614 mutation of COVID-19. Adherence to social distancing measures and face protection do not explain the almost 30-fold difference in infection incidence between Asian and European/American populations. The populations in the Indian Subcon-tinent are an exception, as infections rates were elevated com-pared to other Asian countries. Differences in immune responses between European and Afri-can populations have been alluded to because of archaic intro-gression of immune-related Neanderthal genes in the European genome. As opposed to the European genome, the Asian ge-nome has a higher introgression of the Neanderthal’s sister spe-cies’ genes, the Denisovan genes, which are more commonly found in East and South East Asia and the South Pacic popula-tions. Contrastingly the Denisonvan genes are scantily found in the populations of the Indian Subcontinent...."