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3 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Another Covid - Blood Group A Study

A research team at Brigham & Women's Hospital in the USA assessed how the blood groups A, B and O reacted to the protein and found blood type A to be the most reactive to a particular protein in the virus called RBD

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p…
I have not seen the study itself so cannot comment on the quality, but this is now 1 of 4 that at least notes a correlation between Blood Group A and more severe Covid.
H/T @Tim_Kelly for the link to the paper itself.

ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/…
O+ is the most common blood group in the U.K. (about 35% I think) with A+ next in line (about 30%).
Worth noting that a 2020 mega analysis (H/T @Tim_Kelly did not find convincing data that Blood Group A was associated with greater severity, but it precedes this study which, in any event, seemed to suggest that it may predispose one to getting infected.

pmj.bmj.com/content/early/…

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