A finding of sex similarities rather than differences in COVID-19 outcomes

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¹ Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA. heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu.
² Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu.
³ Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of the History of Science, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁸ Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Heather Shattuck-Heidorn et al. Nature. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;597(7877):E7-E9.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03644-7. Epub 2021 Sep 22.

¹ Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA. heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu.
² Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. heather.shattuckheidorn@maine.edu.
³ Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of the History of Science, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁸ Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Takahashi T, Ellingson MK, Wong P, Israelow B, Lucas C, Klein J, Silva J, Mao T, Oh JE, Tokuyama M, Lu P, Venkataraman A, Park A, Liu F, Meir A, Sun J, Wang EY, Casanovas-Massana A, Wyllie AL, Vogels CBF, Earnest R, Lapidus S, Ott IM, Moore AJ, Shaw A, Fournier JB, Odio CD, Farhadian S, Dela Cruz C, Grubaugh ND, Schulz WL, Ring AM, Ko AI, Omer SB, Iwasaki A. Takahashi T, et al. Nature. 2021 Sep;597(7877):E10-E11. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03645-6. Nature. 2021. PMID: 34552250 No abstract available.

Sex differences in immune responses that underlie COVID-19 disease outcomes.
Takahashi T, Ellingson MK, Wong P, Israelow B, Lucas C, Klein J, Silva J, Mao T, Oh JE, Tokuyama M, Lu P, Venkataraman A, Park A, Liu F, Meir A, Sun J, Wang EY, Casanovas-Massana A, Wyllie AL, Vogels CBF, Earnest R, Lapidus S, Ott IM, Moore AJ; Yale IMPACT Research Team; Shaw A, Fournier JB, Odio CD, Farhadian S, Dela Cruz C, Grubaugh ND, Schulz WL, Ring AM, Ko AI, Omer SB, Iwasaki A. Takahashi T, et al. Nature. 2020 Dec;588(7837):315-320. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2700-3. Epub 2020 Aug 26. Nature. 2020. PMID: 32846427 Free PMC article.

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