Someone has been reading the same studies we have:
Surge in men panic buying at-home collection kits to freeze their sperm amid fears coronavirus will leave them unable to have kids - despite NO evidence the virus harms fertility
17:46 EDT, 13 April 2020
Several sperm-freezing clinics have reported spikes in the number of men ordering their at-home collection kits
Men cite concerns that COVID-19 could affect their fertility
No research has linked coronavirus to infertility and viral illnesses in general don’t affect the ability to reproduce, an NYU expert told DailyMail.com
Fever can disrupt sperm production, but the effects are short-lived
Men are rushing to freeze their sperm amid the coronavirus pandemic, clinics claim - despite no concrete evidence that the virus will hurt male fertility.
Sales of CryoChoice’s at-home sperm collection kits have spiked by as much as 20 percent in the last few weeks, their operations manager Heather Kilpatrick told the Daily Beast.
So far, there’s no evidence to suggest that coronavirus damages sperm or male fertility.
But that’s not stopping American men from flocking to sperm banks with mail-in collection services in a bid to save their seeds.
.....A study conducted at Nanjing Medical University in China - which was published as a preprint online but has not yet been peer-reviewed - examined the testicles and semen of 13 coronavirus patients, including 12 in recovery and one who died.
Despite confirmation that the men, all of whom were between ages 22 and 38, aside from the patient who died (aged 67), were infected with coronavirus, none of their semen or testicular tissues were positive for the virus.
As a result, the authors of the small study concluded that there is no reason to believe that coronavirus can be sexually transmitted.
They did not address if or how the men’s sperm were affected by their infection
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The study:
ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage After 2019-nCoV Infection
February 15th, 2020, 10:11 AM
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v1.full.pdf
Given that more men are dying than women I imagine a lot of the men are saving their sperm so that if they die their wives can have their baby. Tonight heard speculation that women are protected by their second X cromosome. Also more blacks and Latinos are dying. This could partly be caused by poverty and low income, but if the speculation that Vitamin D is helpful against Covid, then it could be the dark skin is causing them to be more deficient in stored Vitamin D. Dark skin is a tropical evolution that protects against excess amounts of Vitamin D being absorbed through the skin.