Add studies about blood type susceptibility and severity

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 * [CMMID repository of COVID-19 research](https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/)
 * [Curated updates from the International Society for Infectious Diseases](https://promedmail.org/coronavirus/)
 * [Evolutionary history of SARS-COV-2](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7), a paper published on Nature
+* [Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v2) has been studied by Chinese researchers first, but a paper on [The ABO blood group locus and a chromosome 3 gene cluster associate with SARS-CoV-2 respiratory failure in an Italian-Spanish genome-wide association analysis](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.31.20114991v1) echoed its finding that type A blood carries the highest risk while type O carries the lowest (although one is about risk of contracting and one about severity); finally [23andMe finds evidence that blood type plays a role in COVID-19](https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/23andme-finds-evidence-that-blood-type-plays-a-role-in-covid-19/) in preliminary results on a 750000-partecipant study, again finding that type O is protective, while finding no significant differences among the other types
 * [Origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2](https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463) highlighting presence of two clades with distinct behaviors
 * [Rebuttal to the "two strains" (S and L) claim](http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-continuing-evolution-of-sars-cov-2/418)
 * [Preliminary evidence of association with temperature](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20036731v1), where a correlation with lower temperatures is found but not conclusively and not very significantly