The Lancett: Gender and age effects on the rates of infection and deaths in individuals with confirmed SARS-COV-2 infection in six European countries.

Identifying whether the COVID-19 outbreak differentially affects males and females is an important step to understand direct and indirect effects of this health emergency.
The aim of this study was to describe the effect of sex on the crude cumulative rate of confirmed SARS-COV-2 infections and deaths for different age categories in six European countries.