Understanding sexdifferences in coronavirus infections may be the key to a viable vaccine and treatment.
from the SARS epidemic and MERS outbreaks also showed sex-specific differences in infection rates and deaths. Laboratory male and female mice infected with SARS showed that males were more susceptible to infection than females.
This is important data that may aid today’s researchers in their quest for a vaccine and treatment for coronavirus.Historically, women have been left out of clinical trials, which has led to poor health outcomes. For example,were sometimes labeled as atypical in the textbooks. In actuality, up to 50% of the time, women’s symptoms and test results simply differed from men’s.
“Testosterone counteracts the action of the flu vaccine in men, so it takes twice as much vaccine to vaccinate a man than a woman,” Werbinski said, adding that the vaccine is made in a man’s dose so women are getting twice as much as they need.
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