“This article is published in the Journal of Virology (2017) from a researcher in Wuhan Institute, bragging about how by introducing some strategic HIV gene segments into the bat Corona virus he was able to make the virus attack humans via the ACE2 receptors. ”
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Bingo! I had read elsewhere that the virus attacks the ACE2 receptors in the lungs. These ACE2 receptors are more prevalent in Asians than they are in Caucasians…
SO… perhaps the disease will not be as virulent among a European-descended population? Time will tell.