Since the Covid-19 pandemic started, there have been a series of speculations spreading around which suggest individuals with certain blood types may pose a lower risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus.
Individuals with Type O blood, to be exact. However, the question remains: does having a certain blood type really affect your risk for Coronavirus?
The short answer is... no. The long answer? Although initial researches from China, Italy, and Spain have backed the hypothesis, the results of similar studies from Denmark and The United States offer contradicting results.
Specifically, researches led by Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, from Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Murray, Utah, conducted research on tens of thousands of patients from over 24 hospitals in three states: Idaho, Utah, and Nevada— 11,500 of which tested positive for Coronavirus.
The final analysis of the research proved that "blood type did not play a significant role in anyone's risk of contracting Covid-19" and the results show that " two things are statistically linked is not the same as proving that one caused the other", referring to the fact that comparing blood types of an individual to their susceptibility against Covid-19 pose no significant evidence of it having any reliable correlation.
