Does Your Blood Type Protect You From Long Covid? Exclusive New Study Raises Big Questions

With a rash of recent studies adding to the ones from earlier in the coronavirus pandemic that showed a correlation between blood type and severe Covid-19, the question needs to be asked whether blood type could also have an impact on the probability of Long Covid. In this film I analyse my data set of 950 Long Haulers to see if blood type does play a role in this debilitating condition, as well as looking into whether it might play a role in recovery.

Wondering who I am and why I’m making these films about Covid-19? I talk about it here: https://youtu.be/FULycGPmN18

0:00 Introduction
0:33 Blood Types and Covid-19
1:26 What are Blood Groups?
2:52 The Reports
4:40 The Data
7:03 Recovery and Blood Type
9:23 Analysis and Conclusion

References:

Blood type distributions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_country

Blood types and common infections:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506161

Chikungunya:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827391/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19531208/

Blood Group vs severe covid pre-print
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v2.article-metrics

JAMA review of studies to date:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2770889

Columbia University Study
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058073v3

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