If You Have This Blood Type, You're at a High Risk of Severe COVID
By Zachary Mack
of Best Life
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If You Have This Blood Type, You're at a High Risk of Severe COVID
It's not just your habits or pre-existing conditions that determine how you'd respond to the novel coronavirus if you were to contract it. The makeup of your molecular building blocks has a major effect on how severe your illness could be—and research has shown that your blood type could be one of these key genetic indicators. Recently, a new study confirmed earlier reports that
The findings come on the heels of continued research from the GenOMICC Consortium, an international association of scientists that study the connections between severe illnesses and genes. These scientists compared the genes of more than 2,000 COVID-19 patients in Great Britain with those of healthy people,