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

AsiaOne ^ | MARCH 17, 2020 | STEPHEN CHEN

[longfellowsmuse]

me too

[blam]

I read once that Wales had the highest incidence of O type blood than anywhere else in the world.

I must have read it in this book:

The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story

[Bernard]

A - for me. I will always remember that because I got hauled out of bed in the middle of the night during basic training at Lackland and provided the opportunity to volunteer to give blood to another basis trainee who got into a car accident and needed transfusions.

As I recall, we all volunteered. Nobody even asked how some basic trainee got into a car accident.

[airborne]

I used to be O+ and then I had a bone marrow transplant to treat my leukaemia.

Now my blood type is O-

[RightField]

A- here ... sigh.

[smvoice]

You have just answered the question that has always bothered me, if a person has a bone marrow transplant, does his blood type change to the donor’s blood type. It would make a great suspense/who done it movie!

[null and void]

A+ here.

And here.

It's not fair, I get an A+ in something and this is my reward???

HARumph!

[Polyxene]

Same here — A+

[NorthstarMom]

I’m type O. Husband and kids are type A.

Wonder if blood type also impacts susceptibility to influenza. . About 10 years ago my family went down like dominoes with influenza. I’m the only one who didn’t catch it and believe me, I was up close and caring for five people with it. I kissed the foreheads of sick kids, cradled them in my arms, handled all their dishes and laundry yet never caught it. Six people in a small house meant very close quarters.

Hopefully, no one in my family catches this; especially our son with severe asthma. He works in a hospital so I pray for his protection. Our youngest son also has asthma, but not as severe and he is only 9. It seems this doesn’t affect children as much.

[blam]

I thought I ought to look it up.....look what I found:

Blood type distribution by country

[libertylover]

Uh oh.

[toast]

I’m toast too.

[Shethink13]

Eh - Blood types are genetic. Type A is dominant over O, and the cases of Coronavirus in China were primarily limited to Wuhan province where most likely generations of families have lived. Also, the majority ABO type nationwide in China is A Pos - I’m not convinced.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Stat question...

How many in the general population would have to be randomly sampled before you could extrapolate a general population infection number???

[Bonemaker]

“...They found that blood type A patients showed a higher rate of infection...”

Are democrats type A’s?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Well, I'm dead.

A2+ and damaged lungs.

It was nice knowing you!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Great. Me and my husband (and ostensibly, our son), exact same A+.

[Fury]

“Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility”

- see https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1

[maggief]

Bookmark

I’ve traced my direct genealogy through numerous royal bloodlines, roman emperors and byzantine rulers.

[Fury]

Sorry - did not see you posted the link already.