Blood vials. Photo: Getty Images/Science Photo Library As scientists around the world have raced to understand COVID-19, the general public has been inundated with a flurry of early studies and ensuing recommendations, some of which have been contradictory, leaving us with “coronavirus whiplash.” A recent source of confusion has been the relationship between the coronavirus…
(CNN)Most humans fall into one of four blood groups A, B, AB or O. Ordinarily, your blood typemakes very little difference in your daily life except if you need to have a blood transfusion. Howev…
matterNew studies show that people with Type A blood are not at greater risk of getting sick, as previous studies had suggested.Credit...Chamila Karunarathne/EPA, via ShutterstockJuly 15, 2020, 10:19 a.m. ETEarly in the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers found preliminary evidence suggesting that people’s blood type might be an important risk factor — both for being infected by…
This one indicator more than doubles your mortality rate, a recent study finds. Doctors have long known that certain preexisting health conditions can make a patient's experience with the novel coronavirus much more severe and potentially deadly. But growing research is painting a broader picture of other indicators that could signal health issues for anyone…
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U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…