Would be good to pin this thread.
Good information I'm digging up that can be used to educate your hmong people and makes you feel smarter when you talk to folks about this covid and vaccine. Read this next clip here. Are you Asian? Yep, that's us and why this vaccine is..... well, just read it for yourself.
"That's why it surprised me when MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) modeled a vaccine like those approved and found it to be significantly less effective for some groups than others. It turns out people have different versions of genes -- called alleles -- that determine how cells behave. When a virus invades, it fits into grooves on cell membranes, triggering an immune response. This is how vaccines work. By using bits of the SARS-CoV-2 virus -- specifically the spike protein -- the vaccines that have been developed introduce those bits of the virus that bind to the cell and trigger a response. For people who self-reported as Black or Asian, the alleles caused a less reliable bind to the spike protein, leading to a higher potential that the vaccine will prove ineffective for them. While the ineffectivenes
s is likely to occur in less than one percent of white people, CSAIL predicts it could affect 10% of those of Asian descent."
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/12/09/artificial-intelligence-just-revealed-a-potential/