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Those men likely suffer from low T. One of the associated diseases that go along with Covid-19 deaths is diabetes - most men with diabetes have terrible Testosterone profiles. In addition those men, as we know from the stats are unhealthy as they come generally.

https://tinyurl.com/ybtbqxsn

Notice the middle charts concerning age and disease.

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But women have lower T.

I'm not a doctor, but my understanding is that women have a different hormonal profile than men and thus having a lower absolute amount of testosterone is not necessarily a problem; the problem is when the balance is not right between testosterone, estrogen, and others.

The point is that it suggests that low testosterone alone is not the cause of the effect they're seeing here.

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