Male patients with COVID-19 are 3 times more likely to require intensive care, and have about a 40% higher death rate. With few exceptions, the sex bias observed in COVID-19 is a worldwide phenomenon.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_NRJournals

 

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And men are significantly more likely than women to be vitamin D deficient. Smoking gun?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29705881/

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096695

https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/hta23020#/abstract

 

If this is the smoking gun, it also explains why dark skinned minority populations is also getting sicker and dying more.

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Something interesting:

This is why, in Menni et al. [1] // (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0916-2) //, their formula for predicting COVID-19 infection based on subjective patient symptoms has a sex multiplier of 0.44 if patient is male.

[1] C. Menni, A. Valdes and M. Freidin, "Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19," Nature Medicine, vol. 26, pp. 1037-1040, 2020.