An ICYMI via the South China Morning Post
- People with blood type A may be more vulnerable
- those with type O seem more resistant,
Blood group patterns of more than 2,000 patients infected with the virus in Wuhan and Shenzhen
- compared them to local healthy populations.
- They found that blood type A patients showed a higher rate of infection and they tended to develop more severe symptoms.
- researchers said the study was preliminary and more work was needed
- “People of blood group A might need particularly strengthened personal protection to reduce the chance of infection”
