That’s what COVID said!
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BOOOOOO
meh some data that i haven’t reviewed says otherwise.
Don’t really care about this topic, so I haven’t looked into it too hard. (I don’t care because I can’t change anyone’s blood type)
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U DON’T EVEN NEED TO LEAVE YOUR PROPERTY TO STEAL AND SNIFF THE PANTIES Y R U GOING ALL OVER THE PLACE
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ol’ panty mike spreading the plague
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O SHIT U DON’T SAY MIKE
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these bitches act like they’ve never heard of jigsaw puzzles and i’m about to lose my composure
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I definetely figured you for older than 8!
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womp womp
Also:
“I was a hard ass that stood up for my ‘God-given rights’. In great haste, I began prognosticating the alphabet soup about this ‘scamdemic’. I believed the virus to be a hoax.
“Prognosticating the alphabet soup”?
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It’s not unusual for different blood types to be more or less susceptible to various diseases.
I’m not saying it’s illogical. I guess I should’ve said “disproven” rather than “debunked.”
I definitely remember a round of news about Type A blood possibly being high-risk ~6 months ago and another round walking it back ~3 months ago.
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the walk back was because people started acting like they couldn’t get it if they had O-neg.
the data is interesting, one of the few things that seemed to hold on different continents, but the difference in infection rates does not imply anyone is safe. being old is by far a bigger factor.
like reading the tea leaves
The thing I’ll say on this is that blood type is one of those things that are easily tracked. So if you were to do a study that looked at a whole mess of data, you’d be able to find some associations between blood type and ‘x’ at least a few times if you were looking at enough variables based on chance alone. You get that association, let the media blow up your research, and bam that’s an easy citation.
I got zero evidence that’s what happened, but it’s the kind of thing that definitely happens.
It also doesn’t matter really. I doubt you can get some sort of treatment pathway based on this.
it’s harder than it seems to gather data like that even during normal times. there’s forms, waivers, sampling, etc. and for most of the first six months hospitals were quite literally trying to stay afloat.
afaik, most ERs did not even collect data on BCG at the height of the pandemic. which led to seriously misleading geographical conclusions. to top it off, effect was estimated to be probably only moderate, didn’t change treatment, and not applicable to unvaccinated adults (90% of population). i do hope US will reinstate the BCG vaccine for children.
ERs generally don’t collect data on BCGs. Not sure why you want people to get bcg when tb is uncommon and generally treatable in the usa, but whatever.
It’s also not hard at all to collect that data, as a signed form from every patient wouldn’t be required. All you need is to de-identify your EMR and run a few queries.
they should collect the data, but there are obstacles. not the least of which is selection bias. that’s why you can’t just run a simple query. (lol @EMR)
BCG is super safe and helps against other infections, as well as bladder cancer. also people travel to countries with TB more often than they used to. it’s just a good idea imo, although i’m biased because i was vaccinated.