It has to do with the mechanism the malaria parasite uses in the human bloodstream having similarities to the actions of the corona virus. The logic seems interesting, perhaps persuasive, but requires knowledge I do not have.
Two caveats: First, the author admits to not being a physician. Second is this header the site puts at the top of the column:
Anyone can publish on Medium per our Policies, but we don’t fact-check every story. For more info about the coronavirus, see cdc.gov.In other words, the connections made are interesting, seemingly logical, but perhaps no more than guesses. As we noted weeks ago, Coronavirus has a lot of people guessing about how it does its damage, us included. Some of those guesses will prove accurate, most won’t be.
A reason to question this hypothesis is that African-Americans, who often carry sickle cell as a recessive gene, should gain some anti-Covid protection from its anti-malarial properties. On the other hand, they seem to be dying from Covid at a greater-than-average rate, exactly the opposite of what this author’s theory suggests.
