In a letter to the editor in the journal Dermatologic Therapy, Dr. Carlos Wambier — an assistant professor of dermatology and clinician educator at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School — and a team of researchers from New York University, Applied Biology, Inc., and universities in Spain, India and Italy lay the groundwork for a hypothesis: the same male hormones that cause hair loss are linked to the vulnerability of patients to SARS-CoV-2.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-04-07/androgen
Q: What might it mean for individuals who take anabolic-androgenic steroids, whether for approved uses or otherwise?
In the same way the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended avoiding corticosteroids in COVID-19 patients, it might be important to avoid androgen hormones during the pandemic, particularly for police officers, health care workers and members of the military. There’s a link in that some corticosteroids also bind to androgen receptors. In addition, women who use progestogens for birth control that increase androgen activity (those that can cause acne or increased facial hair), might also consider contraceptive progestogens with anti-androgen activity.