Posted on 03/26/2020 6:07:02 PM PDT by Slainte
Madrid — Cristian Guaman Benítez, a 33-year-old electrician who moved to Spain from Ecuador, had been sick for a week with a cough, a terrible headache and a fever as high as 104 degrees.
He saw three doctors who treated his illness like a cold, prescribing medicines and sending him back to work. Finally, he called the number for covid-19 information, and a doctor came to his home to examine him — and sent him by ambulance to Madrid’s 12 de Octubre Hospital.
Which was where he discovered he was an outlier.
“I looked around and all I saw [were] very old people,” Benítez remembered. Struggling to breathe by that point, he ended up in the intensive care unit, and only then, fortunately, was able to recover.
Benítez’s story, of an ICU admission for covid-19 at age 33, remains rare. However, based on detailed epidemiological data from the advancing epidemic in Spain, even young men are not risk free. And as men in the country get older, their cases of severe disease, including pneumonia, trips to the ICU, and deaths, become far more numerous than those for women.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
But, what about the OTHER 57 genders?
This runs counter to an earlier post that said men and women more likely to get it then other genders.
So all those new genders are safe ... got it.
This site really, really needs a ‘Like’ button.
No. no. no. Impossible. It's a social construct.
Sex has no biological underpinnings.
The very suggestion of "underpinnings" is sexist and incredibly offensive.
How 'bout that?
The Chicoms were decrying the overabundance of men and lack of marriageable women.
Looks like their bioweapon removed the imbalance.
I guess the message inside the bottle saying “hydroxychloroquine cures it - try it” didn’t was ashore yet.
Italy had 3 times the European death rate for respiratory diseases even before this recent virus launched.
Spain would probably be second in line, but I haven’t seen the stats.
Italy has the oldest population in Europe, and Spain has the second oldest. Few children in either country. And no young workers, which is why Italy brought in Chinese workers.
The Spanish and Italians were very heavy smokers...or at least the men were, which would account for the preponderance of male deaths.
But is the virus discriminating against trans men. That can’t be tolerated. We must drag trans men out of her houses and kill her.
I may have messed up the pronouns but the concept remains the same. Trans men should throw themselves off of bridges.
Are flu and VARDS correlated? They can lead to DEATH.
Vaping Associated Respiratory Distress Syndrome VARDS?
More proof women are oppressed and need more gummit money and regs to protect them.
Men get every illness more except breast cancer and uterine cancer
Nope. It has just hit men and women harder than all the other genders combined.
zerselves...
It was a man hating feminist in the chinese lab who built the virus.
“there is another study from china that says smokers are less likely to get it but if they do they are more likely to have serious problems
doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me...but there it is”
People keeping distance from smokers maybe?
Oregon has 142 women positive Wuhan
123 men positive Wuhan
Women vape more than men according to studies. The bar graph I just looked at was proportional to the above figures.
From the Babylon Bee: “Males and Females the most disproportionally genders affected by COVID-19...”
Thanks, Cold Heart.
Pols, props, agency bureaurats.
Distancing against the wall can be no more than 1 inch apart. Not everyone here has 20/20 vision.
“Men have higher smoking rates...”
and our immune systems aren’t as good as females because a lot of the immune system is on the X chromosome and while women have two of these in every cell, we males have only one ... it’s also probably why females have autoimmune diseases about five times more frequently than males ...
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