- Taken from the case series of 43 patients, this bar graph shows that men are more likely to experience severe cases/symptoms of COVID-19.

Number of COVID-19 cases in men and women with varying classes of severity

In the case series, men tended to have more severe cases of COVID-19 (P=0.035). In the public data set, the number of men who died from COVID-19 was 2.4 times the number of women (P=0.016). In the data taken from SARS patients from 2003, the percentage of males were higher in the deceased group than in the group that survived (P=0.015).

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Data were used from a case series of 43 patients, a public data set of the first 37 cases of patients who died of COVID-19 and 1,019 patients who survived in China, and information about 524 patients with SARS (139 deaths) from Beijing in 2003. 

Gender Differences in Patients With COVID-19: Focus on Severity and Mortality: Background Information

Jin, J., Bai, P., He, W., Wu, F., Liu, X., Han, D., . . . Yang, J. (2020). Gender Differences in Patients With COVID-19: Focus on Severity and Mortality. Frontiers in Public Health, 8. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00152
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00152/full

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