Men infected with the new coronavirus are as much as three times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit than women, and the risk of death is much higher for men than for women. What about the chances of infection for men and women? According to the data, men and women have roughly the same risk of contracting the new form of coronavirus.
Based on a study published in Nature Communications, NOWnews said Kate Webb, a pediatric rheumatologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and co-author of the study, said he doesn’t want men to be weakened by the data. And the findings will allow researchers to question, among other things, why there are these differences between men and women and how to put this information to good use in the fight against COVID-19.
After analyzing data from more than 3.1 million of the 68 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in 46 countries worldwide (including 44 U.S. states) and 90 studies on more than 3.1 million of those cases, the researchers found that men and women appear to be at equal risk of developing COVID-19.
Kate Webb and colleagues found that of the eight studies analyzed that tracked the number of intensive care units associated with COVID-19, men accounted for nearly 70 percent of the cases. In addition, of the 70 studies of COVID-19 deaths, approximately 214,000 deaths were recorded, with men accounting for 56%.
They therefore argue that in light of these findings, gender should be considered an important biological factor when designing therapies and vaccination strategies against the new coronavirus.
Kate Webb argues that men and women with underlying health problems cannot adequately explain the apparent gender differences in COVID-19 severity; however, what the research team does know is that men typically have a poorer immune response to many different sources of infection.
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