Posted on 12/11/2020 7:34:30 AM PST by Onthebrink
Coronavirus-Infected Men are three times more likely to require intensive care than women and are at significantly higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University College London and South Africa’s University of Cape Town.
The eye-opening expansive research, published in the journal Nature Communications, was able to examine from January to June more than three million cases of COVID-19 worldwide from forty-six countries and forty-four states in the United States. Roughly 1.57 million were women and 1.53 million were men.
What the researchers discovered was that although both men and women are equally prone to infection, men had 40 percent higher risk of death and “almost three times the odds” of needing to be admitted to an intensive care unit, according to the study.
In all, the study’s data accounted for more than two hundred thousand deaths related to the virus—one hundred twenty thousand of which were men and ninety-one thousand women. Of the twelve thousand ICU patients, eight thousand were men.
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