Covid-19 pandemic has brought a tsunami of collateral impacts on social, economic, cultural and public health systems. While pandemics and their impact are not completely alien to human knowledge, it seems the modern world was not very well prepared for this global-scale pandemic.
As we learn by taking steps to manage and minimize its effects on the human population, it is important to consider the disproportionately greater burden that COVID-19 extends to women, calling for a fresh design to the gendered public health emergency response.
While the statistics are still emerging, a scan of the literature suggests that the fatality rate among women (1.7%) is lower than that of men (2.8%).