Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/BBKKOZvf0yg   Seventy percent of Italians killed by coronavirus are male, and two-thirds of those hospitalized with the virus in China were men.  Israeli immunologists, experts on gender differences in immune function, explain why.   Men are more susceptible to viruses than women due to less effective and less-well prepared immune systems.  Men have fewer immune scavenger macrophages than women and fewer pre-activated macrophages ready to do battle.  Macrophage control is on the X chromosome and men have only one of those.    Then too, men have less healthy lifestyles.  They smoke more, eat unhealthy foods, and wash their hands in public restrooms half as often as women. C’mon guys.   https://aabgu.org/male-corona-mortality/#   #immunity #macrophage #covid19 #coronavirus #male