RFK Jr. says COVID may have been “ethnically targeted”

“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy hedged.

— New York Post

The susceptibility of different populations to SARS-CoV-2 infection is not yet understood. Here, we combined ACE2 coding variants’ analysis in different populations and computational chemistry calculations to probe the effects on SARS-CoV-2/ACE2 interaction. ACE2-K26R; which is most frequent in Ashkenazi Jewish population decreased the SARS-CoV-2/ACE2 electrostatic attraction. On the contrary, ACE2-I468V, R219C, K341R, D206G, G211R increased the electrostatic attraction; ordered by binding strength from weakest to strongest. The aforementioned variants are most frequent in East Asian, South Asian, African and African American, European, European and South Asian populations, respectively.

— Fedaa Ali, Menattallah Elserafy, Mohamed H. Alkordi, and Muhamed Amin

3. Gene Therapy

Gene therapy involves repairing or replacing a gene of an organism, permanently changing its genetic composition. By replacing existing genes with harmful genes, this technique can be used to manufacture bioweapons (2).

— Mackenzie Foley

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  August 20, 2020. Fedaa Ali, Menattallah Elserafy, Mohamed H. Alkordi, and Muhamed Amin. “ACE2 Coding Variants in Different Populations and Their Potential Impact on SARS-CoV-2 Binding Affinity.” Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports 24 (August): 100798.
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  This may be the article that RFKjr tried to cite during the censorship hearing in July 2023.
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  July 15, 2023. Jon Levine. “RFK Jr. Says COVID Was ‘ethnically Targeted’ to Spare Jews.” New York Post. Runtime of embedded video: 1:47.
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  April 1, 2002. Michael J. Ainscough. “Next Generation Bioweapons: The Technology of Genetic Engineering Applied to Biowarfare and Bioterrorism.” ADA468243. Air University Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
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  March 10, 2013. Mackenzie Foley. “Genetically Engineered Bioweapons: A New Breed of Weapons for Modern Warfare.” Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science.
  https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2013/03/10/genetically-engineered-bioweapons-a-new-breed-of-weapons-for-modern-warfare/.
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  December 24, 2016. Michael J. Ainscough. “Chapter 9: Next Generation Bioweapons: Genetic Engineering and BW.”
  https://web.archive.org/web/20161224080429/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/biostorm/ainscough.pdf.
  PDF.