Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19 (opens in new tab)

That's overwhelmingly the case. Obviously there are exceptions (which is what the critics will target to try to counter the premise, they'll shoot at the 1% negative case outliers among those with genetics for long life). George Burns is the classic example - 10-15 cigars per day for 70 years, lived to 100. It doesn't make you invulnerable of course, it shifts likelihoods strongly in your favor versus the average person. And you can still do incredibly stupid things to shorten your life, it won't prevent that. If the general public understood how set in barely flexible goo (you can only move it a bit) their health outcomes are at birth, it would encourage even worse diet and exercise behaviors due to an increased belief in futility. If you have the genetics to live to 75, you're not making it to 112 [1] no matter what you do. The news media has a thing they like to do with super old people: ask them what their magic secret is, and the answers are frequently wildly different; that's because it's mostly not what they did, but what they are made of, that produced the outcome (which isn't to say that living a healthier lifestyle, or having some good luck during life, won't help the long-lived get to 106 instead of 97; they too can slightly move the needle around in their box).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-52063482

If we are measuring survival, surviving is not a bias, it's a data point

Without taking into account genes can you explain why Japan has 54 centenaries every 100k people, France 34, Italy 33 and US only 22?

how so?

We do have some increased understanding of that at this point. It's their own immune system reaction that often kills those people. It's happening with Covid as well in younger people that are otherwise healthy.

And we know that 90% of all Covid cases are occuring in areas in a temp zone of 37-64 degrees. Covid hates higher temperatures, as with influenza. The media refuses to report the facts: not all locations are equally susceptible. It's why NY and NJ have 50% of all US cases now. It's why the Phoenix metro of five million people, or the states of Nevada or New Mexico or Texas are not seeing the pandemic. It's why so many of Florida's cases are imported. It's why when you cross below roughly the Pennsylvania line, cases per capita plunge. It's why DC and Baltimore aren't drowning in cases, while NYC is (check out the lack of cases and hospitalizations in Delaware and Virginia). It's why the bay area, despite its near 8m population, has so few cases (which the media breathlessly touts as suddenly about to explode into the trillions - it's not going to happen). It's why Mexico, the rest of Latin America, and sub saharan Africa (as well as hot climates in Asia, including within China), are not seeing the pandemic in the numbers that were expected. It's why NYC, Milan, and Wuhan got hit so hard. It's the climates.

Or the virus just acts differently. Tying this to some supposed 'genetic superiority' would be pretty dumb.