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no wonder the calvys here use to call me a hyper fundy!.... ......I think your discretion in keeping it to the cliff notes version was wise. Us fundies tend to have A.D.D. and prefer monosyllabic words.
by the way..... i have been checking to see what i could find out about blood type and covid susceptibility.... ..and some of the studies and statistics on it conflict each other....... then the interpretations of the statistics gets deep into the weeds fast.... .....i remember from pre-med that type O blood without rh factors appeared to be more susceptible to many contageous diseases than other blood types..... the one they made the biggest issue of was tuberculosis... mostly because at that time hawaii was having one of it;s many tb epidemics.... malaria was another one... ........i don;t remember the percentages, but even then they were saying that lack of personal precautions and life style could negate any benefit from not having type O blood.....
...... ......but when it comes to covid - type O blood without rh factors.. appears to be the one least susceptible ..... and type AB with rh factors the most vulnerable.... in most of the studies that examined a little over 220,000 people .. when all other lifestyle and health factors are equal ... people with type O neg blood appeared to have slightly less than 2 pecent chance of developing covid..... while people with type AB pos had between 3 and 4 percent chance...... ...so again... while there is a small benefit from having type O at the moment other lifestyle factors and health can easily outweigh and negate it..... ...plus with this thing still being so new a lot more research needs to be done with all lifestyle and habitual factors included..... sadly, due to rampant wokeness and politcal correctness marching around in the medical research field truly accurate studies are not likely to happen......
Blood Type Biochemistry and Human Disease
Associations between blood type and disease have been studied since the early 1900s when researchers determined that antibodies and antigens are inherited. In the 1950s, the chemical identification of the carbohydrate structure of surface antigens led ...
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