Article: Why does Covid-19 affect men more severely than women?

[kestrell]

Kes: this is a subject I find really fascinating, in part because I'm constantly observing women being more proactively involved in their own health and the health of others, while many men do little or nothing toward proactively caring for their own health. Talk about toxic masculinity.
https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/why-does-covid-19-affect-men-more-severely-than-women/

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[jesse_the_k]

That is intriguing. MyGuy spent 20+ years as a manager at a doctor-owned HMO. The health system assumes that women will be the proxies for "their" husbands as well as their children.

FOUR YEARS! It's been just four years since

2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [first] required all funded research to factor sex as a biological variable into its design, analyses, and reporting. "While the NIH insists that both males and females be represented in trials, almost no trials are designed to see differences based on sex" [... snip ...]

In re rheumatic disease, DMARDs and COVID

Question: Will COVID-19 vaccines interact with DMARDs and biologics used for arthritis?

A: People with rheumatic diseases will not be able to get any of the live vaccines under development for the novel coronavirus. “However, we don’t expect that there will be any issue with non-live vaccines,” explains vaccine researcher William Chen, MD, Chief of the Adult Clinical Studies, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland​. [... snip ...] Five of the seven vaccines that are most likely to be available in the United States in the next 12 months are non-live vaccines,”

And much more on that topic.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?linkname=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=32892311