A recent test appears to show that a person’s blood type would possibly imply whether they will expand severe respiratory failure if they contract COVID-19.
The examination sequenced the genomes of 1,600 COVID-19 patients in Spain and Italy who had been hospitalized for severe respiratory failure and the effects of DNA sequences of 2,205 healthy subjects.
The effects appear to show that other people with type A blood had a greater threat of severe respiratory failure compared to other people with type O blood. The test states that there may be a “protective effect” for type O blood. However, this test has not yet been peer-reviewed and the exact type or scope of the “protective effect” is unknown.
In early June, 23andme.com published the effects of data collected from 750,000 participants who knew they had COVID-1nine. The genealogy society said his studies advised a similar effect on other people with O blood equipment. “People with an O blood type are nine to 18 percent less likely than other people on other blood equipment to have tested positive for COVID-1nine, according to the data,” says a corporate statement.
They said that while there is a significant difference in other people with an O blood type, “there appear to be small differences in sensitivity among other blood groups.”
However, some have the concept that other people with type O blood are protected. Laura Cooling is the Director of Immunohematology at the University of Michigan. It noted that the concept that having type O blood was protective did not correspond to the existing rates of COVID-19 infection.
Type O blood is more common among African Americans, according to the American Red Cross, however, new data from the CDC and states indicate that African Americans have experienced disproportionately high rates of COVID-19 infection. Cooling says there are many points to consider.
“It’s his blood type, for the other user who exposed it, to all the other acquired genetic and fitness disorders he has,” he told Chemical and Engineering News.