COVID-19 infection in women
Interestingly, the reports showed that the rate of COVID-19 infection is
higher in men than women, and the severity of the illness is much higher
in men. The percent of disease fatality in men is 2.8%, while in women,
it is 1.7% (Report of the WHO-China Joint
Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [Pdf] - World Health
Organization; The Epidemiological
Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diseases
(COVID-19) - China CCDC). An early study from China showed that of the
99 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia where the average age of the
patients was 55ยท5 years, the average age for men was 67 years and for
women was 32 years (Chen et al., 2020).
Another report showed that of the total 55,924 COVID-19 confirmed cases
reported in February 2020, the men comprised 51.1%, women comprised
21.6%, and the median age was 51 years
(Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [Pdf] - World Health
Organization).