Covid-19 and Blood Types

gande

Sun, May 17 2020, 10:24 pm

You also need to ask about exposure. I have A and not sure what my husband has but I didnt have symtoms while he did.

Tzutzie

Sun, May 17 2020, 10:33 pm

Im not sure what happened but my vote didn't go thru. I have blood type O, and I had covid-19 although not officially diagnosed.
My husband, im not sure his bloodtype. Was "under the weather" for like 3 days and thats it. He was well enough to not even think about staying home from work. Just a bit out of it.
This was BEFORE we realized it could gave been covid. It was BEFORE patient zero in new rochelle....

amother

Taupe

Sun, May 17 2020, 10:41 pm

Also, "I had covid19" can mean both "I lost my sense of smell for 2 weeks but was otherwise fine" and "I was bedridden for 2 weeks"

losingweight

Mon, May 18 2020, 12:30 am

I was exposed when my husband had it. Went to the mikva right before he had fever. BH I had no symptoms otherwise. I want to check my antibodies though.

amother

Violet

Mon, May 18 2020, 1:00 am

gande wrote:

You also need to ask about exposure. I have A and not sure what my husband has but I didnt have symtoms while he did.

same. the only "after" symptom I had (slightly still have) is the not smelling for weeks now

momomany

Mon, May 18 2020, 1:29 am

I am O and I was sick. I have antibodies so I know it was covid tho I did not get swabbed during the illness

amother

Coffee

Mon, May 18 2020, 1:56 am

The question should also ask what the symptoms were and how severe.
Every blood type can have covid-19. The question is at what level it was.
Some people had just a trace of a symptom while others were sick like a dog.
I'm curious if the symptoms had a connection with the blood type?

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amother

Maroon

Mon, May 18 2020, 2:02 am

A+
Was plenty exposed...
Dont think I had it.
Entire family was overly exposed, noone had.
7 kids, husband worked with people who had, went to shul, went to stores, kids played with friends, was by Urgent Care ...nothing. BH.

amother

Cyan

Mon, May 18 2020, 2:06 am

amother [ Maroon ] wrote:

why?
I just counted the hamodia list of frum people we have lost. 252.
so I ask you why you engage in behaviors that may spread illness
why?
you have not had time to do rigorous research to determine that current advice is false. so..
why?

amother

Green

Mon, May 18 2020, 2:22 am

I didn't vote because I think I had it but unconfirmed. Blood type A. For me it was like a cold (no fever) with a worse than usual cough and loss of smell.

amother

Silver

Mon, May 18 2020, 2:33 am

My dh and I were sick before purim. He had all the symptoms. I did not. Right before purim we had a family simcha with extended family. And one of our mechatanim were very sick with covid. I work in a school. One of our children works in a hospital, 2 work in schools.
Yes we were careful with sd from before Pesach and still are
We recently went for antibodies test and came up negative
I am O+
He is A-

Does that mean that it was not covid?
Or that the tests are not accurate?
Or that positive for antibodies only shows For some?
Who knows?
So one of your questions should be I don’t know if I had covid.

amother

Cyan

Mon, May 18 2020, 2:36 am

amother [ Silver ] wrote:

the tests have been brought to.market very quickly and therefore unfortunately have problems with accuracy.

no one knows. research is ongoing. time and study will tell.

amother

Maroon

Mon, May 18 2020, 2:52 am

amother [ Cyan ] wrote:

Bc my husband had to work, and ppl there had it.
He went to shul bc his rabbi didnt close it.
Kids refused to stay locked up, and neighbors were knocking on our door.
I had to buy food for my kids, so I had to go to the store.
My daughter worked in Urgent Care, so she dealt with patients who had it.
We didnt engage in spreading the illness. We just lived normal. Noone around us got sick.

I'm aware many sadly died...are u trying to blame me for that?

Anyways I was just being honest to OPs poll.

Ora in town

Mon, May 18 2020, 3:22 am

Tzutzie wrote:

Wow! That sounds interesting.
So there was already community spread at that time...

Hashem_Yaazor

Mon, May 18 2020, 8:56 am

Ora in town wrote:

Wow! That sounds interesting.
So there was already community spread at that time...

Two possibilities: it wasn't covid (I also got sick before, no antibodies, so likely a different illness)

It was covid and we do expect there to have been community spread before someone got seriously sick as no one knew where he got it from so presumably it was around before and no one realized

amother

Goldenrod

Mon, May 18 2020, 9:01 am

Tzutzie wrote:

Could have very well be the flu or the myriad of other viruses around every year. I highly doubt any medical personnel would consider this to be COVID-19.

Have you taken an antibodies test yet?

Chayalle

Mon, May 18 2020, 9:05 am

ladYdI wrote:

Is there any truth to what they say about ppl with o less likely to get sick

My father has O- blood type and he was sick with it for over a week (but B"H did not develop anything serious).

I am A+ and was sick for 5 days, also relatively mildly.