Ann Coulter provides a simpler explanation of Italy: “Lombardy is the Italian region most devastated by the Wuhan virus. As far back as 2003, a Library of Congress report cited Lombardy as having the highest concentration of Chinese immigrants in Italy. Our media refuses to tell us this fact today—or any day.”

Simpler explanation for Italy, especially northern Italy with the highest level of Chinese immigrants:
One commenter at another site stated, “I wonder how much of this could have been avoided if Italian garment manufacturers hadn’t imported nearly a half a million Chinese laborers so they could pay slave wages and still slap that coveted ‘Made in Italy’ label on their products?” Another added, “Pre-restrictions, [Italy had] 10 flights a day at least (3000 people) probably more given that it was Chinese New Year. The Wuhan area was a particularly popular source of cheap labor… ”

https://www.statista.com/statistics/831439/pet-ownership-united-states-ethnicity/
Black pet ownership 44% Vs. White pet ownership 70%

As a Biology Teacher in Kenya in 1974, I found out that twins were considered very unlucky and were routinely killed upon birth. This may have accounted for the unusual absence of twins at our school.

The article below shows that only 0.14% (much less than one percent) of a sample of 3,636 subjects in the Family Blood Pressure study in 15 geographic locales in the United States and Taiwan did not self-report their race/ethnicity (white, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic) in accord with a genetic analysis of each subject for 326 markers that produced four major clusters. In short 99.8% of 3,636 subjects in a blood pressure study reported their ethnicity/race in accord with detailed genetic analysis which identified the four major groupings: white, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic. Thus, it is ignorant to pretend that such categories do not exist when virtually everyone knows their specific race and ethnicity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/

Data that could have helped this article:
Asians outscore Non-Hispanic Whites on SATs
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/testing.htm#APPENDIX%20B

Asians equal scores of Non-Hispanic Whites on LSATs (Law school admissions): 152.1 vs. 152.7 Mean scores by race for 2005-2006 https://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/03/lsat-and-iq.html

If someone else could provide GRE (graduate school admission test) and MCAT (medical school admission test) scores by race, then we could resolve WITH DATA whether Asian scores become closer to Whites at ages 20-24 as suggested by the LSAT scores reported on by Steve Sailer.

Folk taxonomies equal scientific ones over 99% of the time in this study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/

Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies by Hua Tang et al. Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Feb; 76(2): 268–275.

We have analyzed genetic data for 326 microsatellite markers that were typed uniformly in a large multiethnic population-based sample of individuals as part of a study of the genetics of hypertension (Family Blood Pressure Program). Subjects identified themselves as belonging to one of four major racial/ethnic groups (white, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic) and were recruited from 15 different geographic locales within the United States and Taiwan. Genetic cluster analysis of the microsatellite markers produced four major clusters, which showed near-perfect correspondence with the four self-reported race/ethnicity categories. Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity.