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Studies find men more prone to COVID-19 death

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Men are more than twice as likely to die of COVID-19 than women, regardless of age, according to a study today in Frontiers in Public Health.Also, older men with underlying diseases are more vulnerable than their female counterparts to COVID-19 infection and poor outcomes, a small retrospective study published yesterday in PLOS Pathogens has found.Risk of death 2.4 times higher in menResearchers in the Frontiers study extracted data from a case series of 43 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Wuhan, China; a public data set from the first 37 patients who died of the virus and 1,019 survivors in China; and information from 524 SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) patients, including 139 who died, in 29 Beijing hospitals in early 2003 to

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