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Why are men more likely to get worse symptoms and die from covid-19?
We know that older people are more vulnerable to covid-19, but another major risk factor has emerged: being male. The first signs of a sex difference in covid-19 severity emerged from hospital records in Wuhan shortly after the city locked down. On 30 January, a team at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine published a report on 99 covid-19 patients who were admitted to Jinyintan Wuhan hospital between 1 January and 20 January. They found that among those admitted, men outnumbered women by more than two to one.
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