A recent study looking at male and female immune responses to the new coronavirus shed new light on why men with COVID-19 are more likely to get seriously ill.
It has been evident since the early part of the pandemic that people, significantly older men, are at more danger of dying from the virus than women of a similar age. Still, researchers have not yet been able to explain precisely why.
Recent research reported in the journal Nature observed that men account for about 60 percent of COVID-19 deaths globally and investigated whether variations in immune responses could explain why.
"What we find was that both men and women produce various forms of immune responses to COVID-19," the lead author of the report, Akiko Iwasaki, a professor at Yale University, said in a video.
"These variations are underlie decreased vulnerability to the Coronavirus disease in people."
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