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Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women


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Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women

This week, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published the largest analysis of coronavirus cases to date. Although men and women have been infected in roughly equal numbers, researchers found, the death rate among men was 2.8 percent, compared with 1.7 percent among women.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/health/coronavirus-men-women.html

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30 minutes ago, Ellen said:

Children also seem to be more immune 

Wrong, adults are more immune. Children in third world countries are more immune because of granuloma. Old people and immuno-compromised people are high risk groups. 

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Women also produce stronger immune responses after vaccinations, and have enhanced memory immune responses, which protect adults from pathogens they were exposed to as children.

“There’s something about the immune system in females that is more exuberant,” said Dr. Janine Clayton, director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health.

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