University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, MO, USA.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, MU Institute for Women's Health Research, University of Missouri School of Medicine, 500 North Keene Street, Columbia, MO, 65201, USA.
Reprod Sci. 2021 Feb;28(2):332-333. doi: 10.1007/s43032-020-00304-5. Epub 2020 Oct 6.
The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything we have experienced in over a century. In the USA, waves of COVID-19 have migrated from the Northeast to the Sun Belt to the Midwest over the past year. Compared with females, males are more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, have more severe COVID-19 disease, and have higher death rates. In many countries, men are consistently more likely to die by a factor of almost 2. This article describes some of the mechanisms by which COVID-19 may be associated with male infertility, as discussed by Dutta and Sengupta.
新冠疫情是一个多世纪以来我们从未经历过的。在美国,过去一年,新冠疫情一波波从东北部迁移到阳光地带,再到中西部。与女性相比,男性更容易感染 SARS-CoV-2,新冠疾病更严重,死亡率更高。在许多国家,男性的死亡率几乎是女性的两倍。本文由 Dutta 和 Sengupta 讨论了新冠疫情可能与男性不育相关的一些机制。