People with Type A blood are MORE likely to catch coronavirus than those with Type O, study claims
Scientists studied the breakdown of coronavirus patients by their blood type
People with type A blood were significantly more likely to contract the virus
In the general population Type O blood (34%) is more common than A (32%)
But in the infected, this was reversed with Type O just 25% while Type A
The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalized, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals.
The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for another 12 months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.
It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons becoming infected with the coronavirus over that time.
Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that. However, the briefing makes clear that four in five of the population “are expected” to contract the virus.
The document says that: “As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalization.”
Scientists studied the breakdown of coronavirus patients by their blood type
People with type A blood were significantly more likely to contract the virus
In the general population Type O blood (34%) is more common than A (32%)
But in the infected, this was reversed with Type O just 25% while Type A
The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalized, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals.
The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for another 12 months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.
It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons becoming infected with the coronavirus over that time.
Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that. However, the briefing makes clear that four in five of the population “are expected” to contract the virus.
The document says that: “As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalization.”
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