Men appear to be harder hit by the coronavirus than women — and more likely to have severe illness or die. Here are the theories about why that seems to be the case. 👇
Data from around 1.5 million tests done in the U.S. show that the majority of people tested, 56%, were women. Of those women, 16% tested positive for the virus. In contrast, only 44% of the tests were done on men. And 23% of them tested positive.
That's a concern because experts believe this virus poses more dangers for men, perhaps because of biological differences between men and women., a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Women's Health, Sex, and Gender Differences, began noticing hints of a sex difference in COVID-19 infections back in February as reports began to emerge from China.
"What we saw in Wuhan has been replicated in every country around the world where we have accurate reporting," says Klein."In countries like Spain, where the percentages of males and females who report smoking is not significantly different, we still areof 1,591 cases of critically ill people who were admitted into intensive care units showed that about 82% of them were men.of people hospitalized in the U.S.
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