People With Blood Type A May Be More Vulnerable to coronavirus, China Study Finds

AsiaOne ^ | MARCH 17, 2020 | STEPHEN CHEN

[CARTOUCHE]

I’m a goner and need a complete oil change with O 40. BLEED ME!

[Verginius Rufus]

Indigenous peoples of the New World have very high percentages of O blood.

Among Europeans, the Irish seem to have the highest rate of O+. The luck of the Irish?

Iceland is just behind Ireland--if you count together both O+ and O- they are tied. Icelanders have a lot of Celtic DNA (from ancestors enslaved by the Norse).

[Verginius Rufus]

Another A+ here. My mother was type O. I don’t know what my father’s type was.

[Ratman0823]

Since O is recessive, your father must have been A+.

[Verginius Rufus]

Thanks.

[deadrock]

Oh, you’re negative.

[steve86]

O-positive:

African-American: 47 percent
Asian: 39 percent
Caucasian: 37 percent
Latino-American: 53 percent

O-negative:

African-American: 4 percent
Asian: 1 percent
Caucasian: 8 percent
Latino-American: 4 percent

A-positive:
African-American: 24 percent
Asian: 27 percent
Caucasian: 33 percent
Latino-American: 29 percent

A-negative:

African-American: 2 percent
Asian: 0.5 percent
Caucasian: 7 percent
Latino-American: 2 percent

B-positive:

African-American: 18 percent
Asian: 25 percent
Caucasian: 9 percent
Latino-American: 9 percent

B-negative:

African-American: 1 percent
Asian: 0.4 percent
Caucasian: 2 percent
Latino-American: 1 percent

AB-positive:

African-American: 4 percent
Asian: 7 percent
Caucasian: 3 percent
Latino-American: 2 percent

AB-negative:

African-American: 0.3 percent
Asian: 0.1 percent
Caucasian: 1 percent
Latino-American: 0.2 percent

[riri]

Shaddap. (:

[redcatcherb412]

At this point are folks going to take any chinese ‘studies’ as gospel since the world is still reeling from their last bio-weapons studies ?

[missthethunder]

I’m just going to start
identifying as O+.

[kalee]

I have read that too.

[blam]

"Iceland is just behind Ireland--if you count together both O+ and O- they are tied. Icelanders have a lot of Celtic DNA (from ancestors enslaved by the Norse)."

In Iceland, the male haplogroups are Scandanavian and the female are Irish. The thought is that the Vikings stopped at Ireland and 'obtained' Irish wives and took them to Iceland with them.

[MacMattico]

A- Yippee!

[trebb]

Same here - wife is B- and she’s almost 70 (I’m 67) - I’d rather fight it and have her OK...

But we’ll have to see because it’s another “May be/could be/might be/who the hell really knows” deal...