Not every country provides sex-disaggregated data, but a clear trend has emerged. “The distribution of cases seems to be about equal globally; there does not seem to be a sex or gender bias in who gets diagnosed as a case, although this varies from country to country”, said Sarah Hawkes, Professor of Global Public Health at University College London, UK. “But when it comes to cases progressing to severe disease and death, men are at quite a substantial disadvantage”.
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