Why Do Men Tend to Get More Severe COVID-19?

As clearer numbers are collected around COVID-19 illness and death, a clear bias has emerged

Men are at significantly higher risk for hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Now reasearchers are looking into why that is. Yuganov Konstantin/Shutterstock

There needs to be a broader study of how biological sex differences affect outcomes with COVID-19, researchers argue in a recent paper.

Though it’s still unclear exactly why, what is clear is that men are suffering worse fates than women when it comes to COVID-19, regardless of geography or age.