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In a study published in the Lancet, scientists suggest that women, due to their stronger immune systems, are more dangerous carriers of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus than men. Previous research confirms that women are less likely to get infected and die from COVID-19 less often.
In a study published in the Lancet journal, doctors suggest that women should be kept under medical observation for more than two weeks because the incubation period for SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is longer than for men. This is the result of the observations of scientists so far. A longer incubation period means a greater likelihood of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, with no or mild symptoms.
Scientists have not answered the question of how long women should be quarantined if they become infected. It is worth noting this in the context of the fact that women more often act as health care workers (in China, over 90% of health care workers in Hubei province are women). They can catch the coronavirus but will not be hospitalized due to the lack of or mild symptoms.
In one study, researchers described the case of a 20-year-old woman with a coronavirus incubation period of at least 19 days. The woman left Wuhan on January 10 and went to visit her relatives in Anyang, Henan Province. The woman’s family was infected with coronavirus, and the 20-year-old herself was under medical observation. Even though she had no symptoms, the coronavirus test came out positive.
Based on the analyzes, scientists found that the percentage of asymptomatic infections is much higher in women than in men. In addition, they observed that the average incubation period for coronavirus in women may be longer than in men. The infection in women was diagnosed more than 14 days after contact with the coronavirus.
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In a 2017 study published in Allergy and Immunology, we can read that women develop a stronger innate and adaptive immune response than men, making them less susceptible to many bacterial, viral and parasitic infections. However, they are more often affected by autoimmune diseases.
Research on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus suggests that women are much less likely to die from COVID-19 than men. 70% of men infected with coronavirus are deaths. Scientists “blame” this state, among others, for differences related to the functioning of the immune system, which we mentioned above, but not only.
Researchers based on death analyzes have determined that the coronavirus more often affects older men who have other diseases and more often causes severe disease and death. Other studies show that of patients who deteriorated from severe to critical, 83 percent. are men.
One of the factors contributing to higher mortality in men due to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is cigarette smoking and, consequently, problems with the lungs and heart.
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