{"id":1112,"date":"2021-02-06T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2021-02-06T09:02:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:02:56","slug":"does-generally-being-healthy-protect-against-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Does generally being healthy protect against COVID?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Are there any studies done on people who eat healthy, exercise, don\u2019t smoke, rarely get sick, take the proper amount of vitamins\/minerals and have no comorbidity and how this affects the person contracting Covid 19 or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0As Dr. Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/online-event-year-end-reflections-2020-dr-anthony-fauci\">said in December<\/a>, &#8220;There\u2019s something very strange about a virus that in most people barely bothers them and in others it kills them. We still don\u2019t understand why that\u2019s the case right now.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We do know that disease severity increases with age,&nbsp;racial\/ethnic minority status, and underlying conditions (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=840\">Q&amp;A of 11\/18<\/a>).&nbsp; Global estimates&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/langlo\/article\/PIIS2214-109X(20)30464-2\/fulltext#:~:text=Global%20data%20indicate%20higher%20COVID,in%20some%20cases%20(appendix).&amp;text=The%20COVID%2D10%20sex%2Ddisaggregated%20data%20tracker.\">indicate that case fatality rates are higher among men<\/a> than women.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Many researchers also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-03065-y\">hypothesize that genetics<\/a>&nbsp;related to innate immune response and inflammatory response respectively play a role in susceptibility to infection and disease severity (see <a href=\"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=947\">Q&amp;A of 12\/15<\/a>).&nbsp; And a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M20-4511\">growing body of research<\/a> shows that O blood type, especially O negative blood type, may be protective against COVID-19 infection and severity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>There&#8217;s also accumulating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7476563\/\">evidence<\/a> indicating that disease severity increases as a person&#8217;s exposure to the virus increases (see <a href=\"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=84\">Q&amp;A 10\/25<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Further, when it comes to susceptibility to infection, we have a mixture of infected host, environment, and the susceptible host factors that influence whether or not a person becomes infected (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=829\">Q&amp;A of 11\/16<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To summarize, we likely have a mixture of socio-demographic, genetic, and environmental\u00a0factors influencing susceptibility and disease severity.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no special vitamin or exercise or food a person can take to protect against COVID&#8211; though it&#8217;s always good to maintain overall health!\u00a0 Instead, the best way to avoid infection is to wear your mask, wash your hands, keep your distance, avoid the 3Cs&#8211; closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact settings, and get the vaccination when it&#8217;s your turn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0Are there any studies done on people who eat healthy, exercise, don\u2019t smoke, rarely get sick, take the proper amount of vitamins\/minerals and have no comorbidity and how this affects the person contracting Covid 19 or not? 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