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Spin cobordism v.s. KO theory in low or in any dimensions

It seems that from this webpage, the spin cobordism is equivalent to KO theory in low dimension.

If we denote the $p$-torsion part (mean $\mathbb{Z}_{p^n}$ for some $n$) $$\Omega_d(BG)_p.$$

Question 1: Then do we have $$\Omega_d^{spin}(BG)_p = ko_d(BG)_p?$$ for $p=2$ and free part, for $d\le 7$.

And $$ \Omega_d^{spin}(BG)_p = \Omega_d^{SO}(BG)? $$ for $p \neq 2$ and $p$ is an odd prime.

Namely, the 2-torsion and free part of $Mspin$ and $KO$ is the same. If there is an odd $p$ torsion, we need to consider localization at odd prime by $MSO$ cohomology. Is this correct?

Question 2: If this is a statement about the spectra, not just about stable homotopy groups, and thus within these spin cobordism and ko theory, do they completely coincide for any dimensions $d$, instead of just $d \leq 7$?

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