COVID-19 pandemic: Mechanistic approaches and gender vulnerabilities

Luqman Khan; Nisar Ul Khaliq; Asad Ullah; Naseem Rafiq; Mujib Ullah

doi:10.1016/j.jsps.2020.11.014

COVID-19 pandemic: Mechanistic approaches and gender vulnerabilities

Saudi Pharm J. 2020 Dec;28(12):1874-1876. doi: 10.1016/j.jsps.2020.11.014. Epub 2020 Nov 25.

Authors

Luqman Khan¹, Nisar Ul Khaliq², Asad Ullah¹, Naseem Rafiq³, Mujib Ullah⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
² Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
³ Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KPK, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Immunology and Transplantation, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA.

Abstract

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly pathogenic virus that causes coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), a severe respiratory damaging syndrome with serious health complications worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 was unfamilar before the epidemic started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is currently a pandemic influencing several countries worldwide. One of the mysteries of the new coronavirus is that it is deadlier for men than women with the male mortality rate is twice as high as that of females.

Keywords: COVID-19; Gender Vulnerability; Mortality; Pandemic.