Covid-19 and blood groups
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Are certain blood groups more susceptible to Covid-19 than others. My blood group is rare, does that mean if i get it, I'm in trouble?
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Notes on Covid-19 and blood groups
jx41870 jelly46
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I've seen a couple of reports that type A blood (rh unspecified) was more susceptible, but one report had the math all wrong, and the other report showed only a very small difference, so who knows.
I don't know of any proposed treatment for the virus that cares about your blood type.
Hope that helps!
moon53540 jelly46
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From everything I have read and watched, diabetes and obesity seem to be 2 big factors which keep cropping up.
jx41870 moon53540
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@moon53540 said:
And high blood pressure.
And yet, statistically, this may be bogus.
All of these co-vary so strongly with age that the background statistics come very close to the COVID-19 statistics. In which case, really, it's not even any of them, it's just COVID-19 taking things as they are.
Though I'm sure even so - the healthier you are at the start, the better your odds. It would have to be a pretty strange virus for this not to be true!
moon53540 jx41870
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I read something about some of the medications which are given in hospitals to treat covid 19 having a lethal reaction to Metformin in one article.
jx41870 moon53540
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Moon, yes, I heard that too, Doctor Oz was running around scaring people less about that, based on some report, HCQ and metformin. But then I heard that that was a lab experiment with mice being fed 10x the doses of both.
I don't know what the official word is on this now, but both metformin and HCQ have been around for decades, even centuries, so if it was all that bad we'd probably know it by now.
I heard Doctor Oz kind of back off the scare a couple of days later, he's been saying a lot of stuff recently that I think is not well advised or well backed.
moon53540 jx41870
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The obesity thing is being reported about a lot at the moment. It was the first thing I noticed when they showed all the victims who lost their lives, most of them were obese.
jx41870 moon53540
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moon, the reporting on this, across the board, is so awful it's hard to believe. Even major spokespersons get stuck on month-old memes that were never true and have been widely dismissed, while we don't know what new facts have replaced them.
Look at the prior demographics of any group or feature or co-morbidity they may mention, IF you can get the data!
The whole age and co-morbitidy thing has me tearing my hair out (and I don't have that much to play with!), for lack of REAL DATA, as EVERY spokesperson seems to ignore the prior demographics.
moon53540 jx41870
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It is just an observation that a lot of doctors and nurses are talking about, that the majority of patients coming in hospital in different countries all around the world are obese. They are also mentioning other health issues such as diabetes, heart problems, etc but I think it would be weird to ignore the obesity thing. Of course it may not be the only thing wrong or the only contributing factor, but I wasn't writing a medical paper on this, just observing a very big coincidence.