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Cameroonian Student contacted Corona virus and recovered

    falsely reported that a Cameroonian college student studying in China contracted coronavirus but recovered  “because of his blood genetic composition which is mainly found in the genetic composition of subsaharan Africans.”   If such a claim, that people from African backgrounds are more resistant to coronavirus than others, were true, one would expect it to be a major news story. Instead, it’s being reported exclusively in viral social media posts and junk sites.  That’s because it’s not true. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who comes into close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus is at risk for contracting it. That said, it is true that Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, a 21-year-old Cameroon national studying in China, became ill after contracting coronavirus and was hospitalized. His recovery was not the result of a superior immune system possessed by people hailing from African countries but, according to , rounds of antibiotics