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> Well I hope that at least the next [..] pandemic will insert some beneficial mutations to humanity.

Sometimes this is indirect; there is some debate on why some Europeans have immunity to HIV, the current hypothesis is that it’s a result of us surviving the Black Plague.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.h...



Also why Africans did not suffer such large number of fatalities per population. A younger population but we are one of the few regions in the world still giving the TB/Polio vaccine at birth.

"epigenetic modifications, activate cells of the innate immune system, such as monocytes, macrophages and natural killer cells"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34983348/




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