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What's Sex Got to Do With COVID-19? Gender-Based Differences in the Host Immune Response to Coronaviruses.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Gadi Nirupa, Wu Samantha C, Spihlman Allison P, Moulton Vaishali R
Abstract excerpt
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has ravaged the world, with over 22 million total cases and over 770,000 deaths worldwide as of August 18, 2020. While the elderly are most severely affected, implicating an age bias, a striking factor in the demographics of this deadly disease is the gender bias, with higher numbers of cases,...
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