>I read yesterday every person that has caught this virus was Chinese.
>Concur, saw the same elsewhere. Asian males, specifically.
>Nothing to see here, move along, everything is fine
Its a rumor based on a recent paper (see link) that found very high levels of a target receptor in one male Asian subject
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full#disqus_thread
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Its an interesting observation (n=1) which needs to be confirmed by more research, but there are many factors which can effect the expression of these ACE2 receptors, such as gender, smoking, treatment for hypertension, etc.