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Research Finds Men Might Be More Susceptible To COVID-19 Than Women

Who is most susceptible to the new coronavirus? A study shows coronavirus may infect more men than women.

There are now more than 100 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., raising alarms about who gets the virus.

Here & Now’s Tonya Mosley speaks with Sharon Begley (@sxbegle), senior science writer for STAT, a health and medicine publication, about how widespread the virus can be.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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