I had heard previously that people with type O blood might have more resistance to the virus.
Type A, on the other hand....
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The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 may latch more easily onto the airway cells of people with type A blood compared with those with type B or O blood, a new study suggests. The findings hint at a possible explanation for why, throughout the pandemic, studies have found those with type A blood are likelier to catch COVID-19 and develop severe symptoms than other blood types.
Laboratory experiments revealed that part of the coronavirus called the "receptor binding domain" (RBD), which directly binds to cells to jumpstart infection, also grabs onto unique molecules associated with type A blood. These molecules, known as antigens, show up on cells that line the respiratory tract, including the lungs, according to the study, published March 3 in the journal Blood Advances.
In theory, binding to these structures may help the coronavirus enter and infect the airway cells more easily — however, we don't know that for sure yet, the study authors told Live Science.
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I don’t know what my blood type is. Not sure I want to find out.
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Remember, Steve was really sick, fever for 16 or 17 days, but he didn’t have a cough, and his O2 levels did not go down far enough that he needed to be on oxygen. (Which is why he never went to the hospital, though part of that was because he was the first case here, and they didn’t want him anywhere near the hospital unless he couldn’t breath - Im guessing his treatment would be different now, they would have hospitalized him and hooked him up to IVs and given him steroids and antibiotics)
Jodi
