You may be at higher risk of coronavirus if you have these blood types
Patients receive treatment in an intensive care unit of the Central Clinical Hospital "RZD-Medicine", which delivers medical aid to people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia, May 18, 2020. People with certain blood types may have a reduced risk of contracting coronavirus and even with the infection, be less susceptible to experiencing severe symptoms, new studies have shown. According to two studies published in "Blood Advances" — a peer-reviewed, online-only, open-access journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) — there is some evidence that there may be a link between blood type and vulnerability to COVID-19. Fewer coronavirus patients with blood type O A retrospective study of individuals tested for coronavirus showed that blood type O "may offer some protection against COVID-19 infection". When researchers parsed through data from the Danish health registry of more than 473,000 people tested for COVID-19 and...