COVID fatality rate for men was 1.7 times higher, on average, than the rate for women across 38 countries, an earlier study from 2020 found.
from Harvard University scientists found that although men represented 49 percent of COVID cases in the U.S., they accounted for 55 percent of COVID deaths from April 2020 through May 2021. lent further support to a leading theory about the discrepancy: Estrogen may offer some protection against severe COVID.
For the study, published in the journal Family Practice, U.K., researchers compared women in England who had received hormone replacement therapy — which helps restore estrogen levels during menopause — within six months of a COVID diagnosis to those who did not. The results showed that the first group had a 78 percent lower mortality rate from all causes of death than the second group.
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