blood types and coronavirus infection risk

Great, I am A- and have asthma and am in my fifties.

Coffin-ordering time. Or will I end up in a mass grave on Hart Island.

[quote]Those in the O group, meanwhile, "had a significantly lower risk for the infectious disease."..

YIPPEE!

Vindication! I already told you people in the first freak out thread there’s no way this virus was designed to kill B blooded people. Sorry type As, guess you’re not the fittest this time around.

R2 no need to emphasize +, most O are +, if you are O-, then congratulations, highly sought after O- blood type!

O- = universal donor.

Get out there and donate blood if you are O-.

r1 Can I have your stuff?

I am O-

I found out in HS when I donated blood

I am AB negative The rarest blood type there is. I wonder what that means for me? Other than I'd never be able to find a transfusion.

R8 that means you’re most likely at MOST risk

My friend said this study hasn't been peer reviewed so take with a grain of salt

I don't know my blood type! Help!

[quote] Get out there and donate blood if you are O-.

Gay men in the US are forbidden from donating blood unless they've been celibate for at least a year.

B+

Boring.

O- but they don’t want my blood so 🖕🏼

R14.

Sorry R6, I don't have much stuff. I do have a Jeep Wrangler, and a nice gaming laptop, but those go to my brother.

^ what’s your brothers blood type?

Currently, men who have sex with men in the last 12 months have a deferral period of 12 months before they are eligible to donate blood.

R10 yes it has not been reviewed yet, the study still in the early stage. Here is some more information from Snopes, what I found interesting, the previous study on SARS (also coronavirus) did show there is some correlation between blood types and infections.

[quote] Several viral infections, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), appear to have a certain affinity for specific blood types. “Blood type groups are associated with differences in vulnerability to infection with multiple viruses, and severity of outcomes, Moriarity told us. “Examples include HIV, viruses that cause gastrointestinal illness (norovirus, rotavirus), as well as the SARS coronavirus that caused the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.”

Are they screening for Covid-19? Both strains? And what if you test neg. today and pos. tomorrow? Your blood will infect many.

R8, AB isn't the rarest blood type. Golden blood is; it has no blood antibodies. People with golden blood are universal donors, which is great; they on the other hand, can only get their own blood. Only a couple hundred people have so far been found to have this blood type.

Did it used to be a requirement for married couples to get a blood test?

O-. gave blood yesterday.

B- does this mean I am somewhere in the middle?

O-

like most white people, no?

I’m type O.

I'm o+.

I'm B-positive also, R13. Or, as I refer to it, the "Up with People" blood type.

Do you only find out your blood type if you give blood? My regular doctor's never mentioned my blood type when I had check ups.

I asked my doctor to type my blood when I was having some other blood work done. I never knew what my type was and I was curious.

No, R25; only 8%.

O-positive is 37%.

I’m A- so I guess I’m fucked.

Nice knowing y’all!

O- but +60. Maybe I’ll balance out. Still pushing the elevator buttons and door knobs (if I can) with my elbows.

O this is such great news!

O negative. Former blood donor. The Red Cross had my number on speed dial.

This sample group being reported is very small and as such has next to no value.

Wait for another couple of months once there is data based on hundreds of thousands of cases.

R36 a sample size of 3,000 patients in medical research is not small, not small at all.

I'm A. Guess that means I'm fucked.

A+ doesn't bode well for me. It's been nice knowing you all. You can fight amongst yourselves over my porcelain doll collection.

I'm not a greedy bastard, R39. All I ask is that you write R40 on the sole of that Capodimonte boot I've always had my eye on.

Oh! And if you're feeling up to it, please put it through the dishwasher on the sanitize cycle and then seal it in a Ziploc bag before....well....you know.

Okay, thanks!

I'm O- as well. I think my partner is AB. Must check that out with him.

O negative here

What about Rh blood type?

WhattheFUCK?!?!? I do not know what to believe: Non scientific, peer- reviewed junk from China or this newsweek cunt who clearly does not know how to write up statistics. That article is missing major statistical information. I would reject a student poster presentation with that crap information.

Newsweek-does not know how to do ADULT MATH.

R44 is clearly type A

After six months, two new studies suggested the same conclusion as the one from China.

[quote] Two studies published today in Blood Advances suggest people with blood type O may have a lower risk of COVID-19 infection and reduced likelihood of severe outcomes, including organ complications, if they do get sick.

Golden blood is the best. As far as O- it’s a blessing and a curse, you can give to everyone else but you can only receive O- yourself. Though O blood has been linked to many health benefits like thinner blood and better immunity, but also linked to ulcers and bipolar & schizophrenia.

B- here

Great news for me. (This is sarcasm btw.)

B negative here. Not as good as O, but good enough.

O negative here ( and not bipolar.)

[quote]I am AB negative The rarest blood type there is. I wonder what that means for me? Other than I'd never be able to find a transfusion.

Actually, you can receive a transfusion of any blood type (Rh negative). So it would be easy for you to find a transfusion. You can be given A-, B-, AB-, or O-.

O is the most common blood type, so that means a large percentage of people are not going to be severely affected by Covid.

I’m O Positive. Just anecdotally, I can say that I rarely get sick, just an occasional common cold that I get over quickly. I don’t recall ever having the flu in my life, even before I started getting the flu shot. So I definitely think it’s possible that Type O’s have stronger immunity in general.

Update

A new study provides further evidence that people with certain blood types may be more likely to contract COVID-19.

Specifically, it found that the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is particularly attracted to the blood group A antigen found on respiratory cells.

R12 - so now I can finally donate. Even when I worked at a hospital in my early 20's, the gay doctors I worked with told me they wouldn't let them donate. Then again, some of them were insane sluts.

Thanks for bumping this and posting the new info. I hadn't heard anything recently but have been wondering. Do scholarly people think this is why minority populations are being so hard hit by this?

Is it weird that I have no idea what my blood type is?

I had no idea until this year either, R57. I even asked my doctor at my last physical—I was curious since blood type supposedly played a role in Covid infection—and he said it wasn't in my records and it's not something they normally test for. So I ended up just buying a kit off of Amazon for like $9 that tells you your blood type with just a few drops of blood.

O negative and living the life!

O Positive and I love my life

I'm B+, and I had covid in August. I have a good friend who is O-, and she got it in September

R60 meet R59, you two will cancel each other!

Rh-negative blood has a protective effect for infection, intubation and death. The O- is the best of the best.

More detailed information.

But but but ... being morbidly obese trumps everything!

Is A+ better than A-?

Going to ask my doctor what my blood type is, havent been in for year so due for a checkup anyway

Just get a blood transfusion.

A-, 42, here and have been in poor health all my life. My sister, also a disaster, is O-, as is our father, who is healthy aside from an abdominal aortic aneurysm and heart disease. They both have had their first vaccines, and my dad gets his second on Saturday. I haven't had a vaccine yet and I've presently got two construction people in my tiny apartment...dooooooooooom.

R67, your doctor most likely doesn’t know what your blood type is because they don’t care about that.

If you ever need a transfusion, they will type you in the hospital, right then and there. Otherwise blood type is not tested routinely and not part of your medical record unless there’s a specific reason.

[quote]But but but ... being morbidly obese trumps everything!

Indeed it does:

A new report finds that every country where less than 40% of the population was overweight had a low Covid-19 death rate of no more than 10 people per 100,000.

But in countries where more than 50% of the population was overweight, the Covid-19 death rate was much higher -- more than 100 per 100,000.

There’s a naturopathic doctor who wrote a book called [italic]Eat Right For Your Type[/italic], where he tried to make a correlation between blood types and overall health. He said that Type A people had the weakest immune system which left them susceptible to viruses and cancers; Type Os have the strongest immune system, but this left them prey to autoimmune disorders like lupus, psoriasis and sarcoidosis. AB and B fell somewhere in between. O and B are better suited to high protein foods and a minimum of carbohydrates, while A and AB did better on vegetarian foods. Of course he is called a quack.

Dr. Peter d’Adamo is his name

R72 That's interesting.

I am type A-negative. I have been sick most of my life. I was born severely anemic, and doctors told my parents I had thalassemia and probably would die as an infant. Thalassemia occurs only in Mediterranean populations, and we are NW European only. I didn't die, and they changed the story and called it just idiopathic anemia. I took iron supplements until I was about five years old. At 18, I contracted Lyme disease, and at 19, I contracted mononucleosis. In my early 30s, I became ill with MS-like symptoms, and it turned out I had Lyme disease--it either was never cured when I was 19 or else I was re-infected at some point. I now have a severe allergic disorder that probably was triggered by the Lyme infection. It presents a lot like an inflammatory autoimmune disease such as lupus, RA or Sjogren's, except ANA and other autoimmune blood tests are negative/nonreactive.

My mother was A-negative. She was also always ill. Her spine deteriorated, and she died three years ago from either Crohn's or ulcerative colitis.

My father is O-negative. He has always been healthy except for severe cardiovascular problems that are hereditary among all the men in his family.

My sister is O-negative. She is generally healthy and hasn't had infections as I have, but she does have an autoimmune disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis last year.

R69, There are some advantages to having RH- blood, but from what I read there are downsides that RH positive people do not have to deal with. I am B-, and have issues, my sister is B- and in very poor health, my niece is O- and has health issues. Also on top of that are the alleged mental issues that come with RH- blood.

RH- health study.

This is fascinating. My father read that diet book at some point and kept talking about it. My brother said it was "horseshit." Now I don't know what to think.

"There is now strong evidence that people with certain blood types can have a higher or lower risk of some diseases.

However, there are no studies showing this to have anything to do with diet.

In a major 2013 review study where researchers examined the data from over a thousand studies, they did not find a single well-designed study looking at the health effects of the blood type diet.

They concluded: “No evidence currently exists to validate the purported health benefits of blood type diets.”

R53 Same. I rarely if ever get sick outside of a pandemic, have always had a wonderful immune system, & have managed to avoid COVID-19 altogether. Of course, I'm a loner who follows the set precautions, too.

I'm R74. I (A-neg) have also totally avoided COVID-19 so far, and so have my O-negative sister and father. But I tend to catch at least one cold every year and I have had the flu many times and had bronchitis and ear infections all the time throughout childhood. (My parents smoked heavily inside, though, which is an obvious contributing factor.)

I'm really self-conscious about my immune system because it seems as if I have been sick as much as I have been well throughout the duration of my life. I'm not an OCD germophobe, but I am hygienic and sanitary, and I am always paranoid people will think I'm not because of my constant illnesses, the condition of my skin, etc. Ugh. I honestly would be really elated to be able to blame my blood type!