{"id":22821,"date":"2020-07-27T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=22821"},"modified":"2020-07-27T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:45:23","slug":"coronavirus-seems-to-infect-men-at-a-higher-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/07\/27\/coronavirus-seems-to-infect-men-at-a-higher-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus seems to infect men at a higher rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Omar Al Hammadi, the official spokesman of the UAE Government news briefing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Global statistics have showed that men are the most infected with COVID-19, hence they also represent the higher number of death due to the disease complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Some studies indicates that a women&#8217;s immune system is more active due to genetic and hormonal factors. Men&#8217;s social activities such as going to crowded places, restaurants and cafes make them more prone to the infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Smoking affects the capability of COVID-19 recovery and may even exacerbate the patient&#8217;s condition, especially as it is a respiratory disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The recovery period for a patient depends on age, medical history, and infection with chronic diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Omar Al Hammadi, the official spokesman of the UAE Government news briefing: \u2022 Global statistics have showed that men are the most infected with COVID-19, hence they also represent the higher number of death due to the disease complications. \u2022 Some studies indicates that a women&#8217;s immune system is more active due to genetic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22823,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions\/22823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}