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Brookfoot Lock, Brighouse, taken by Marianne Sellars
aware of this some months ago, but research has shown that your blood type does affect your risk of contracting Covid.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School analysed how the virus interacts with respiratory cells in A , B, and C blood types, and found that Covid 19 bonds more readily to type A respiratory cells.
Other researchers in Whuhan, where the pandemic is believed to have started, looked at the blood types of thousands of people in the area.
Some had been infected and some had not. People with type A blood make up 32 per cent of the population but they suffered 42 per cent of the infections and deaths.
People with Type O blood make up 34 per cent of the population, but comprised only 25 per cent of covid infections and deaths.
They obviously concluded that blood group O was associated with a lower risk of death, blood group A with a higher risk. Types B and AB were associated with average risk.
Perhaps those people with Type A would be well advised to take that extra care with their mask wearing, social distancing, and hand washing etc. because pupils registering for FSM for the first time between October 1, 2020 and January
21, 2021 won’t now be counted until 2022/23.
This change in date means schools will see a loss of Pupil Premium grant, if they had to register pupils after October 1, through no fault of their own.
It has put extra financial pressure on schools and placed them in the unenviable position of what do they cut or prioritise in the tsunami of cuts they already face.
The money will eventually go through for pupil premium, but it will be a year later.
Put it another way, you need to buy your child a pair of shoes, but you won’t have the money to pay for them until a year later, by which time they will have grown and need another pair.
Schools aren’t allowed to set a deficit budget, yet schools will see cuts to their budget, due to the Pupil Premium changes.