Covid-19: Death Rate Higher Among Men

wing2000 said:

Across the most heavily impacted countries to date, it appears men die at higher rates than women. Nobody knows why so far...

Nearly 60 percent of diagnoses have been in men, according to Italy’s top health research agency, Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Across the first 1,697 coronavirus deaths, 71 percent — 1,197 — were men. Just 29 percent, or 493, were women.

In a recent study published in the Lancet, meanwhile, the figures were even higher. It found that 80 percent of the deaths were in men and just 20 percent were in women.


It is certainly possible that as death tolls rise in other countries, the pattern of greater male deaths seen so far in Italy, China, and South Korea could shift. But so far, this is what the evidence shows in the two countries with the largest death tolls, Italy and China, and in a third country (South Korea) acclaimed for keeping very good tabs on the disease.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/03/19/coronavirus-kills-more-men-than-women/

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JIMINZ said:

Add to what you have posted.

A perspective coming to light about our worst enemy today.

A Swiss Doctor on Covid-19


Published: March 14, 2020; Updated: March 20, 2020; Languages: EN, DE

A Swiss medical doctor provided the following information on the current situation in order to enable our readers to make a realistic risk assessment.

According to the latest data of the Italian National Health Institute ISS, the average age of the positively-tested deceased in Italy is currently about 81 years. 10% of the deceased are over 90 years old. 90% of the deceased are over 70 years old.

80% of the deceased had suffered from two or more chronic diseases. 50% of the deceased had suffered from three or more chronic diseases. The chronic diseases include in particular cardiovascular problems, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer.

Less than 1% of the deceased were healthy persons, i.e. persons without pre-existing chronic diseases. Only about 30% of the deceased are women.

The Italian Institute of Health moreover distinguishes between those who died from the coronavirus and those who died with the coronavirus. In many cases it is not yet clear whether the persons died from the virus or from their pre-existing chronic diseases or from a combination of both.

The two Italians deceased under 40 years of age (both 39 years old) were a cancer patient and a diabetes patient with additional complications. In these cases, too, the exact cause of death was not yet clear (i.e. if from the virus or from their pre-existing diseases).

The partial overloading of the hospitals is due to the general rush of patients and the increased number of patients requiring special or intensive care. In particular, the aim is to stabilize respiratory function and, in severe cases, to provide anti-viral therapies.

(Update: The Italian National Institute of Health published a statistical report on test-positive patients and deceased, confirming the above data.)

The doctor also points out the following aspects:

Northern Italy has one of the oldest populations and the worst air quality in Europe, which has already led to an increased number of respiratory diseases and deaths in the past and is likely an additional risk factor in the current epidemic.

South Korea, for instance, has experienced a much milder course than Italy and has already passed the peak of the epidemic. In South Korea, only about 70 deaths with a positive test result have been reported so far. As in Italy, those affected were mostly high-risk patients.

The approximately twelve test-positive Swiss deaths so far were also high-risk patients with chronic diseases, an average age of 80 years and a maximum age of 90 years, whose exact cause of death, i.e. from the virus or from their pre-existing diseases, is not yet known.

Furthermore, according to a first Chinese study, the internationally used virus test kits may give a false positive result in some cases. In these cases, the persons may not have contracted the new coronavirus, but presumably one of the many existing human coronaviruses that are part of the annual (and currently ongoing) common cold and flu epidemics. (1)

Thus the most important indicator for judging the danger of the disease is notthe frequently reported number of positively-tested persons and deaths, but the number of persons actually and unexpectedly developing or dying from pneumonia. This so-called excess mortality has remained very low so far (see below).

According to all current data, for the healthy general population of school and working age, a mild to moderate course of the Covid-19 disease can be expected. Senior citizens and persons with existing chronic diseases should be protected. The medical capacities should be optimally prepared.

Everyone should just calm down and take a deep breath.

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grasping the after wind said:

Well then I will just identify as a woman.

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cow451 said:

Unfortunately the virus isn’t as stupid as one might wish. Besides, the risk for extremely unattractive women is higher, too.

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grasping the after wind said:

I bet the virus would find me very attractive.

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thecolorsblend said:

There's got to be a way to get the infection rates among women higher than they are right now.

Anybody got some ideas?

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