Men face 'almost three times the odds' of ICU admission for Covid-19, study says

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/health/men-covid-19-icu-admission-wellness/index.html

Now, a global analysis of over 3 million Covid-19 cases from January to June has found that male patients with the disease have "almost three times the odds" of requiring admission to intensive care than female patients.

What's more, men were almost 1.4 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than women -- although both sexes have an equivalent risk of infection.

The many parts of the immune system that work together to defend the body against viruses do not operate exactly the same way in men and women, and the study said that more research is needed to determine which specific biological factors may be driving these differences.

The authors of the study said that sex remained "an under-appreciated variable when interrogating outcomes in infectious diseases."