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Why are more men than women dying from Covid-19?

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Why are more men than women dying from Covid-19?
Why are more men than women dying from Covid-19?
Mayo expert addresses disparity

Near the coronavirus pandemic is a rapidly evolving situation?

And there are still more questions than answers about the disease.

One of those questions is why are more men than women dying from covi?19?

Mayo clinic covi?19 expert doctor gregory poland says data from centers for disease control and prevention shows that there's worse severity of this disease in young*male children versus female?

Which is a hint that it isn't just*hormonal.

He says it's also i?line with what they've seen in other studies of viral infections.

Xxx our laboratory does studies where we use live, attenuated vaccines as a proxy, if you will, for viral infection.

And in all those studies, women have superior immune responses to men."

Other countries?

Like spain and italy?

Also are seeing higher death rates among

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