Is Sex Related to Long COVID?

Dr Maria Teresa Ferretti is the chief scientific officer of the Women's Brain Project. She has some ideas about why sex might cause different outcomes in long COVID. It all goes back to the fact that women, thanks to their genetic makeup and especially thanks to estrogen, have something that is described often as a stronger immune system. And this helps us fight in the acute phase of the infection. But it puts women at higher risk for autoimmune disorders in general.