COVID-19 mortality and sex

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In Italy males account for 68.5% of Covid-19 deaths (ISS, 2020), an over-representation repeated in other countries covid-19 mortality statistics. Another way of looking at this is relative risk, as shown in Figure 2 (we exclude the rates below age 30 due to small numbers of deaths). Ratio of male mortality rate to female for confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Italy by age. The excess depicted in Figure 3 is not the first time that males have shown much heavier mortality in response to viral infection: the same was true in the Spanish Influenza pandemic a century ago. The current health advice therefore applies to everyone regardless of age or sex: keep your distance and wash your hands.

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