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Why males may have a worse response to COVID-19 – The Conversation US
A new study is the first to identify sex differences in inflammation and immune cell activation in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, which causes COVID-19.
If you ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, theyll often tell you with an accompanying eye roll, Hes such a baby. Hes extra whiny. Or he exaggerates so much. But there may be a biological explanation for this behavior.
Dubbed the man flu, this phenomenon has been validated in a review of previously published, large epidemiological studies, as well as in studies of influenza in animals. In these studies, males were sick longer, with more sev…
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