
OpinionApril 26, 2020
Our Response to COVID-19 Is Male-Centric
We don’t know how the coronavirus may affect women and men differently, which prevents us from delivering appropriate and personalized care
Alyson J. McGregor, M.D., M.A., FACEP, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the co-founder and director of the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine. She is the author of the forthcoming book Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It (Hachette Books, May 19th 2020).

Our Response to COVID-19 Is Male-Centric
We don’t know how the coronavirus may affect women and men differently, which prevents us from delivering appropriate and personalized care