Important news about Covid 19.----A new study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine on Nov. 24 found that your risk of catching COVID-19 is slashed if you have type O blood. The researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, examined the results of 225,556 Canadians' COVID tests administered between Jan. 15 and Jun. 30. They looked at both how likely a patient was to contract COVID-19, and how likely they were to become seriously ill (or even die) from the virus. After adjusting for demographics and co-morbidities, they found that, compared to those with A, AB, or B blood types, the risk for a COVID-19 diagnosis was 12 percent lower among people with type O blood and the risk for severe COVID-19 or death was also 13 percent lower.If a patient was O-negative, they were particularly protected from the novel coronavirus, the authors noted. "Rh− blood type was protective against SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially for those who were O-negative," they wrote.Unfortunately, this is a much more rare blood type. The American Red Cross reports that 8 percent of white Americans, 4 percent of African-Americans, 4 percent of Latinx-Americans, and 1 percent of Asian-Americans are O-negative. ..............
