Men are at higher risk of developing more severe #COVID than women. Our paper out today by @taka_takehiro @Muhellingson Pat Wong @BenIsraelow @carolilucas @sneakyvirus1 Julio Silva @tianyangmao et al examines sex differences in immune response 👇🏽 (1/n)
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Here is a link to an accessible article. (2/n)
rdcu.be/b6tiP
Here is an earlier thread I wrote about this study.
We find that men decline in T cell responses as they age, and this correlates with worsening of #COVID disease. Women, even in old age, were able to stimulate T cell immunity. (3/n)
For a great report by @apoorva_nyc on this study in @nytimes please read this. (4/n)
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男性は重症化しやすい？ 新型コロナ、免疫に性差 (5/n)
47news.jp/news/5182566.h…
We are so grateful to the @WHRYale for their support of this study and for making this awesome video 👇🏽 (6/n)
We could not have done this study without a huge number of Yale IMPACT collaborators from @YaleMed @YaleSPH @YaleNursing and especially all the patients who volunteered to donated their blood samples and NP swabs for this study 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 (end)
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