Comments on: Coronavirus Kills Men More than Women. Why?

By: 971romeo

971romeo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:46 +0000

I believe that women tend to take better care of their general health than men do. It’s a generality, of course, but if statistics were kept on # of doctor visits, diagnostic tests, etc per annum, I’ll bet women would outnumber men dramatically. Therefore women’s basic conditions of personal health may give them a better chance to fight the disease. What do you think?

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By: D. Posnett MD

D. Posnett MD — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:46 +0000

All of that is true. It brings women in to see their doctors. It means they might get diagnostic tests earlier and it means that the numbers of women getting a COVID-19 diagnosis may be boosted. But when the disease progresses, in women or men, and patients are placed in the ICU or on a respirator, and death becomes a real threat, then I doubt that prior “doctor visits, diagnostic tests, etc per annum” play much of a role. At that point, it is your immune system that either saves you or not. The mouse studies are particularly convincing to me. All mice were raised under identical conditions (they are often litter mates). They are all young and the same age. They don’t have risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, etc) and their health care maintenance behaviors (!) are the same. And yet female mice do much better than male mice when infected with a Coronavirus similar to the one causing COVID-19.

By: jtmarlinnyc

jtmarlinnyc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:46 +0000

Women are less likely to be overweight, at least that used to be the case. Women are taught to watch their weight at a young age. The two diseases most connected with the virus are diabetes and hypertension, which are both associated with obesity.

John John Tepper Marlin, Ph.D.

By: D. Posnett MD

D. Posnett MD — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:46 +0000

Again, I defer to the mouse studies. See above.