[conspire] CABAL in the time of Cholera^W SARS-CoV-2: March event cancelled

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

ABO blood group susceptibility: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1

Note: preprint and not-yet peer reviewed. Money shot: "People with blood group A have a significantly higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O has a significantly lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups."

This was also apparently noted with SARS in 2008: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18818423

Full text (free): https://academic.oup.com/glycob/article/18/12/1085/1988773

Note that I haven't read either paper in full yet, but there's discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fjzjpc/relationship_between_the_abo_blood_group_and_the/

Rough blood type by country distributions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_country

Deirdre