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The Paradox of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Why it is More Unethical Not to Investigate Low Dose Radiotherapy for COVID-19
1MD, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2PhD, Bevelacqua Resources, Richland, WA, United States
3MD, PhD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
4MD, PhD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital Hines, Illinois
5MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
6PhD, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
7MD, Pediatric Infectious Ward, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran
8PhD, Department of Radiology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
9PhD, Department of Medical Physics and Engineering, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
چکیده
An accumulating body of evidence shows that various ethnicities are differentially affected by SARS-COV-2 infection. Moreover, some evidence shows that due to the vaccine inequity and millions of people living with HIV, a major catastrophe could occur in African countries that possibly affects the whole world. Given the possibility that Neanderthal genes confer a slight increase in susceptibility, this difference, at least to some extent, might possibly decrease the risk of the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants among black people in Africa. Recent studies show less death and fewer cases among the ethnic group classified as “Black Africans”. Although Neanderthal DNA might explain some differences in morbidity and mortality of COVID-19, a multitude of confounders complicate things to where drawing definite conclusions is hard or even impossible. Using selective-pressure-free treatments (e.g. low dose radiotherapy) for COVID-19 pneumonia would be of crucial importance everywhere, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where “long COVID” in millions of people with HIV paves the road for the more frequent emergence of new variants.
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