Sara Miller, Staff Writer at Live Science, and Claire Maldarelli, assistant editor at Popular Science, discuss a new study that suggests that men might not be exaggerating symptoms of the flu after all...they might actually suffer more than women!
Miller and Maldarelli weigh-in on the findings, which seem to come down to estrogen. Women, because they have more of the hormone, seem to have stronger immune defenses to respiratory illness.
Both writers also talk the discrepancies in the findings. Social constructs and regular doctor visits could proect against getting sick were not taken into account in the study.
China is reporting a rise in new virus cases, denting optimism that disease control measures which isolated major cities might be working. Japan is reporting dozens of new cases aboard a quarantined cruise ship. The mainland death toll has risen by 97 to 908.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Monday, February 10, 2020.
A hospital in China says a doctor who got in trouble with authorities for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak has died of the illness. Dr. Li Wenliang, 34, was reportedly reprimanded for “spreading rumors” in late December.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, February 5, 2020.
Large white sheets covering them head-to-knee, people infected with a new virus were led by gloved and masked officials Wednesday off a Japanese cruise ship that's being quarantined amid growing worry about the spread of an outbreak.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Tuesday, February 4, 2020.
DirecTV's Spaceway-1 satellite is launching itself into a band of space junk called the graveyard orbit. The emergency measure became necessary after an unexplained battery malfunction in December put it in jeopardy of exploding.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Monday, February 3, 2020.
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The Committee met twice last week but held off making the designation that allows the organization to ramp up the international response to the coronavirus.
