Harvard shows that the coronavirus does not affect men more than women
The numbers indicate that the lethality of covid-19 is greater among men, but it is due to different variables. In August 2020, a report in the New York Times newspaper offered a couple of guidelines to explain why the coronavirus was hitting the male population harder . In the United States, deaths were 30% higher among men than women , and it seemed like a pattern . However, a Harvard study has shown that there are other issues to consider to explain the data. According to research published in the scientific journal Social Science and Medicine , the different way in which covid-19 has affected the sexes is due more to contextual factors than to their gender. To begin with, the Harvard laboratory analysis has shown that the effect of the coronavirus is very different between the different areas of the North American country and that it has not remained stable throughout the pandemic. For example, ...