Men lag women in coronavirus vaccinations, especially in Black communities Rachel Chason, Rebecca Tan © Bill O Leary/The Washington Post DJ Quicksilva on Friday in Hanover, Md. DJ Quicksilva was on the fence about getting vaccinated. The radio host, who lives in Prince George’s County, Md., had been eligible since January because he teaches at his DJ school in person. His doctor was pushing him to get the shot. But he did not trust a medical system he felt had too often failed Black men like him. When his wife got vaccinated in March, the pressure mounted. “It is creating that separation in the house,” he said during a forum he hosted with doctors. “Like: ‘Okay, baby, I’m vaccinated. What you going to do?’ I’m like: ‘Ugh. Jesus Christ.’”
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People whose sex is male have a greater risk of developing severe Covid-19 infections and ultimately dying from the disease. Not only is that a trend doctors have observed since the beginning of the pandemic, it’s also the finding of a recent study that pooled data from over 3 million people from 47 countries. The paper, published in December in the journal
Nature Communications, found that males were 2.84 times more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit and 1.39 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than females. Notably, males and females had similar rates of infection with SARS-CoV-2, so the differences didn’t stem from men’s greater exposure to the virus but more serious outcomes once they were infected.