A growing number of studies are suggesting that women are substantially less susceptible to the effects of the deadly coronavirus than men. According to The South China Morning Post, a new study has suggested that as many as 70 percent of deaths are men. Scientists so far have largely blamed the findings on both a difference in immune systems and outside factors, but have yet to understand the specifics of the discrepancy.
The paper that found that 70 percent of deaths are men was a study of 1,000 patients across China, a little over a third of whom died in Wuhan. Researchers also noted that in addition to being more likely to die, men also suffered from worse effects.
The virus was “more likely to affect older males with comorbidities, and can result in severe and even fatal respiratory diseases,” the paper concluded.
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