People with this blood type have more protection against Corona

A Danish study found that of the 7,422 people who tested positive for coronavirus, only 38.4% of them were blood type O.

Researchers in Canada also found in a separate study that among 95 critically ill patients, a higher proportion of blood types A or AB required ventilators compared to patients with type O or B.

The Canadian study also found that people with blood type A or AB spend longer in the intensive care unit, with an average of 13.5 days, compared to those with blood type O or B, who had an average of nine days.

Commenting on the findings, Maybinder Sikhon, an intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital and author of the Canadian study, said: "This conclusion does not replace other severe risk factors such as age, co-death, etc."

She also confirmed that this does not mean panic or escape, saying: "If one of them is of blood type A, then there is no need to panic, and if you are of blood type O, this also does not mean that you can escape and go recklessly to crowded places."

However, the results of the two new studies provide “more converging evidence that blood type may play a role in a person’s susceptibility to infection with the emerging virus,” said Amish Adalja, a senior researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in Baltimore, who was not involved in either of them.

And it was an American company specializing in genetic research, and indicated that its research reported that people with type O blood have more protection against the emerging virus than others.

And a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last June indicated that genetic data in some patients and healthy people showed that people with blood group A were more likely to develop infection, unlike group O.

It is noteworthy that many studies are still trying to dive into the corridors of this epidemic that appeared last December in China, and is still in force, waiting for a vaccine to stop its course.