blood type

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Disease screenings, temperament tests and blood type preferences left them with 16 regular donors so far that they hope will come in four times a year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

Another 8% have O negative blood, often called the universal blood type, which can be safely transfused into any patient, because it will not trigger an immune response.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024

Currently, patients in any of those situations receive platelets harvested from blood donors, ideally from donors with a compatible blood type.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Thirty days before he was scheduled to be executed, a private investigator hired by his lawyers found that the blood type of the carjacking perpetrator did not match Mr. Thompson’s.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2024

If one-tenth of all people have a certain blood type, what is the probability that, of the next hundred people we randomly select, exactly eight will have the blood type in question? at most, eight?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos