Several weeks ago my son (same son for whom you guys were praying) asked me about his dad’s blood type. It’s O. Son said he read that O blood type was not as likely to contract the virus.
Thirty-seven percent of the U.S. population has type O blood.
“O positive is the most common blood type present in 37 percent of the U.S. population. Blood types vary by ethnic group, with more Hispanic people possessing O blood type, while Asian people are more likely to be type B. Meanwhile, the universal red cell donor has type O negative blood type.
The following data is from China re: infection by blood type. Newsweak article:
“A person’s blood type could affect how vulnerable they are to developing COVID-19—the disease caused by the new coronavirus—scientists believe.
The researchers arrived at this conclusion after studying the blood samples of 2,173 patients with COVID-19 in three hospitals in the Chinese cities of Shenzhen, and Wuhan, where the outbreak is thought to have started late last year. They compared this information with recent blood group surveys on 3,694 healthy people in Wuhan, and 23,386 in Shenzhen.
The findings were presented on the pre-print site medRxiv, a website where health researchers can publish studies before they have gone through the rigorous peer review process required by scientific journals. Publishing pre-prints enables scientists to present their initial findings on a topic and spark debate with fellow experts, and is particularly useful in a fast-moving situation like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of the 3,694 people in Wuhan without COVID-19, 32.16 percent were A type, 24.90 percent B, 9.10 percent AB, and 33.84 percent O.
However, in the 1,775 COVID-19 patients at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, the spread was 37.75 percent for type A, 26.42 percent B, 10.03 percent for AB and 25.80 percent O.
In Shenzhen, 28.77 percent of healthy participants were A; 25.14 percent B, 7.32 percent AB, and 38.77 percent O.
Of the 285 Shenzhen patients with the disease, 28.77 percent were A, 29.12 percent B, 13.68 percent AB, and 28.42 percent O.
A further 113 and 285 COVID-19 patients were monitored in Wuhan and Shenzhen, respectively. “Similar... distribution pattern was observed in 398 patients from another two hospitals in Wuhan and Shenzhen,” the team said.
Taking the data as a whole, the researchers concluded that “blood group A had a significantly higher risk for COVID-19” when compared with non-A blood groups. Those in the O group, meanwhile, “had a significantly lower risk for the infectious disease.”
https://www.newsweek.com/blood-type-coronavirus-covid-19-1492890
Interesting possibilities re: treatment with plasma/blood. Plasma donations from previously infected persons have been mentioned as a possible treatment for the virus. Would there be additional advantages to this treatment if the previously infected person is type O?
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Type A blood tends to be zinc and magnesium deficient.
I suspect this makes these people more susceptible to coronavirus.
Take zinc and quercitin.