Coronavirus: Genes may explain why some face greater danger than others

This "news" article exemplifies the specious yellow journalism that surrounds COVID-19. For example, it repeats a rumor, based on unconfirmed data from China, that people with type A blood have a significantly higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups. The article was apparently intended to frighten people with type A blood. Otherwise, they might have investigated the data being compiled in the U.S.

COVID-19 tests may be new, but routine blood typing has been around for a very long time. With 20,000 COVID-19 deaths currently being reported in the U.S., we would suspect that the blood group data would be available anonymously for thousands of them without delaying for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.