well when you say italian ancestry you don' t say much. In Veneto we have a rate of mortality of 3% vs a rate of mortality in italy of 9%. So as you can see even under this point of view italy is just a paper country. It has strong ethnic differences alongside itself. But I can' t believe that 58% of the people of NY have italian ancestry. Maybe more correctly 58% of the population of NY have an italian ancestor inside their ancestry tree filled with many other ancestors coming from other european countries or other parts of the world. That would be more correct. The same applies to myself. For sure I have a swedish ancestor because of the lombard colonization of whole northern italy, not just of lombardy where the lombards left their name while their DNA heritage was more largely left in the less populated north east of italy. But in comparison surely I have a lot more other ancestors coming from other parts of europe. That said I don' t think the covid spread is related to a particular ethnic group. In NY people live close to each other given the population' s density which if far larger than it is in other places. And covid likes highly populated places. That is the most reasonable.....reason, I believe, not the ethnic group.
Edited by andr99, 02 April 2020 - 03:03 AM.