Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lFLL_IWAY4k   When men contract CoVid19, they mount a less robust T cell defense than women, generate more harmful inflammatory cytokines than women, and suffer more severe clinical consequences than women.  These conclusions come from a Yale study of 93 CoVid patients just published by the online pre-print server medrixiv.com.    The researchers also found that the incidence of poorly protective anti-virus T cell populations and dangerous inflammatory agents increase with advancing age in men but not women.  This adverse immune pattern also increased with excessive body weight in men but not in women.   Bottom line: guys should be extra cautious not to contract the virus.  That means responsible mask wearing, distancing, and washing.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.06.20123414v2.full.pdf   #covid #menshealth #tcells #cytokinestorm