What is it that, you know, those that are over the age of 65 in that?

What should we know about this? And specifically to that really small group,

they're experiencing a much higher, you know, rate of an acute reaction.

These are great questions. So age is interesting. And if you look at the average age of death

and this current pandemic as we track it, northern Italy is six to eight years older than southern Italy.

And so, and it's one of the oldest, you know, countries in the world.

It's average age is around 49 years of age. The United States and China are about 36 years of age.

So we're 13 years younger as a population. And so when you see that the United States having the highest death toll from this thing anywhere else in the world now,

you need to ask what is going on with the United States? Why is the United States apparently older biologically than it is chronologically?

Why is China at the same age average age or, you know, many European countries similar age to, you know, our country?

Why are we dying more? And the answer is pretty obvious. When you, when you rank in chronic disease or health outcomes, everything from neonatal death,

all the way to end of end of life, things, the United States ranks 35th in the world by the most, you know, friendly measurements from the government.

Watchdog organizations think that we might rank closer to 46th or something in the world.

But we're somewhere between 35th and 49th in the world.

So we're the tail end of all modern societies.

We are the bottom of the list.

So if you look at the top economies and industrialized nations, we're dead last of health outcomes.

And so why is the United States dying and why we have so many examples of younger people dying?

It's because we are sicker than any other nation.

And so specific to this COVID, it turns out that we know that the coronavirus, both the common cold as well as these, you know,

more severe versions of it and SARS, MERS and COVID, binds to a receptor in the lung that's called ACE2.

And so this ACE2 receptor is expressed nationally on our lung surfaces.

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