{"id":2389362,"date":"2020-06-18T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2389362"},"modified":"2020-06-18T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:37:48","slug":"men-covid-19-sex-differences-2389362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/men-covid-19-sex-differences-2389362\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do men tend to get more severe COVID-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"
There needs to be broader study of how biological sex differences affect outcomes with COVID-19, researchers argue in a recent paper.<\/p>\n
Though it’s still unclear exactly why, what is clear is that men are suffering worse fates than women when it comes to COVID-19, regardless of geography or age<\/a>.<\/p>\n A variety of data from outbreaks across the world has established this, and researchers like Johns Hopkins University biologist Sabra Klein<\/a> are trying to understand more.<\/p>\n Last month, Klein contributed to the paper in the Journal of Critical Investigations<\/em><\/a>, which calls for study of sex differences in COVID-19 outcomes. The authors also argue that it should be a significant consideration for developing effective treatments and vaccines<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here, Klein explains what the scientific community knows so far about the different outcomes between men and women who contract COVID-19:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There needs to be broader study of how biological sex differences affect outcomes with COVID-19, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7072,"featured_media":2389372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[185622,9392],"class_list":["post-2389362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health-medicine","tag-covid-19","tag-sexes","post_format-post-format-quote","university-johns-hopkins-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n