In a recent investigation, scientists in China looked into the pattern of blood type distribution in 2,173 patients in three hospitals, who had been confirmed to have SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. Accordingly, they compared their findings regarding the blood type of patients with that of the healthy population who lived in the same area as the patients in the study. Apparently, there was a higher prevalence of blood type A among the patients with COVID‐19 than in the normal population. On the contrary, it seemed that individuals with O blood type were spared somehow, as there were fewer patients with this blood type in this study (both p < .001). A series of meta‐analyses on the available data indicated a significantly higher risk for COVID‐19 in people with blood type A, relative to individuals with non‐A blood types. However, an opposite scenario seemed to be true for the blood type O community, since, according to the literature, are less susceptible for contracting infectious diseases such as COVID‐19 (Zhao et al., 2020).