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COVID-19: New Studies Shed More Light On Impact Of Blood Type On Virus COVID-19: New Studies Shed More Light On Impact Of Blood Type On Virus
Covid-19: New Studies Shed More Light On Impact Of Blood Type On Virus Two new studies are shedding light on the possible impact one's blood type has on contracting COVID-19. Findings by a team of European scientists published in the New England Journal of Medicine and based on research involving 1,980 severely ill patients found that those with Blood Type O had the lowest frequency of disease positivity and Blood Type A the highest. Separate studies, conducted at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York and the Massachusetts General Hospital, do not share the European findings. Evidence was found in both those studies that those with Type O blood may be le…