Slightly more type Os have avoided noticeable symptoms, and a slightly fewer died. ...13% or something like that. But most type Os are not immune. It’s only of help to bio-geneticists doing vaccine research.
Yes, typo O is not immune from Covid. It has the best chance of beating malaria. Evolution created a blood type that smothers the parasite.
Somehow this virus wraps around to issues that involve Malaria and oxygen in the blood.
George Floyd had sickle cell trait. He had so many things wrong with him he should have had a hard time with Covid.
Sickle cell may provide some kind of an advantage just like thalassemia.
People were expecting a much bigger problem from Thalassemia sufferers but it didnt happen they way they thought in Italy. THey are still working out why,..could be because they stayed in.
Genetic information is valuable in assessing this disease
Too bad someone here refuses to see the advantage in knowing what could possibly help people fight it.
btw, I view your numbers as meaningless and not accurate because way too much is unknown. Type O may make a huge difference in the end or it may make very little difference
but this is interesting
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-blood-types-disease-severe/
“People with Type O are better able to recognize certain proteins as foreign, and that may extend to proteins on virus surfaces, Hari explained.
During the SARS outbreak, which was caused by a genetic cousin of the coronavirus causing the current pandemic, “it was noted that people with O blood type were less likely to get severe disease,” he said.”