The COVID-19 pandemic has refocused attention on many health inequalities, not least those related to gender. Globally, men and women are thought to be infected with COVID-19 in roughly equal numbers. But, overall, men are 40% more likely than women to die from COVID-19 and almost three times more likely to require admission to an intensive treatment unit…

Baker, P., Alemann, C., Burrell, S., Griffith, D. M., Heidari, S., Kelland, J., Lal, A., & Mukherjee, S. (2021). Men and COVID-19: where’s the policy? BMJ Global Health blog.