Women have a better early anti-viral response than men, according to a study into the role gender plays when it comes to the severity of Covid-19 infections.
123rf.comThe study was a global-scale collaboration between scientists from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and University College London (UCL).
Before the national lockdown was announced in South Africa in March, Dr Charles Raine from UCL reached out to Dr Kate Webb, a paediatric rheumatologist in UCT s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, for her opinion on something he had noticed: that men seemed to be suffering more from Covid-19. Was it anecdotal that men got worse when infected with Covid-19 or was it true? And if so, what was causing it?
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