{"id":112724,"date":"2020-09-08T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/men-may-have-a-slower-immune-response-to-the-coronavirus-than-women-and-that-could-explain-their-higher-mortality-rates"},"modified":"2020-09-08T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T23:23:07","slug":"men-may-have-a-slower-immune-response-to-the-coronavirus-than-women-and-that-could-explain-their-higher-mortality-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/men-may-have-a-slower-immune-response-to-the-coronavirus-than-women-and-that-could-explain-their-higher-mortality-rates","title":{"rendered":"Men may have a slower immune response to the coronavirus than women, and that could explain their higher mortality rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/men-may-have-a-slower-immune-response-to-the-coronavirus-than-women-and-that-could-explain-their-higher-mortality-rates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s delayed immune-system responses to the coronavirus could put them at higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women, according to a study from University of Washington researchers. They found that, for women under the age of 60, their immune systems produced a near immediate defense against the virus. However, for men of all ages, it took an average of three days for their bodies to deploy T cells (white blood cells that sense and destroy virus-infected cells) to fight the novel coronavirus. note: estrogen and progesterone are in clinical trials as treatment, along with over 300 drugs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It took three days for men infected with COVID-19 to develop immune system responses, while women\u2019s bodies began to fight the virus right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s delayed immune-system responses to the coronavirus could put them at higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women, according to a study from University of Washington researchers. They found that, for women under the age of 60, their immune systems produced a near immediate defense against the virus. However, for men of all ages, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}