How your blood type could reduce your risk of coronavirus by 20% - and how to find out yours
PATIENTS with a certain blood type are up to 20 per cent less likely to get the coronavirus, research has found.
This is while 1.4 per cent of people with type A blood and 1.5 per cent of people with type B or AB blood were also confirmed to have the virus. “Ultimately, we hope to publish our research findings in order to provide more insight into Covid-19 for the scientific community.”So far in the UK over 40,000 people have died from the coronavirus and the new development could help healthcare practitioners protect those at risk.GPs don’t usually do this on appointments so you can always give blood in order to determine this.If you give blood through the NHS Blood and Transplant scheme it will be recorded on your official donor card.
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