CNN: COVID is killing far more men, but women are the real victims

Real men don’t wear masks!

[quote] men were 50% more likely than women to die after being diagnosed with Covid-19

Yet it's women who are the "real victims". Whatever you say, CNN.

Women have always been the primary victims of war.

Oh, for fuck's sake, in the long run this virus will kill more healthy working people than those fatfucks it has infected.

I noticed that every so often a news piece comes along identifying a new ‘biggest victim of’. I’m not sure how it’s possible to be more of a victim than those who actually die.

I hope the biggest victims are Trumpees.

As a male with a couple chronic illnesses, I've noticed that I get far less attention from medical professionals and my health needs are taken far less seriously than those of women I know. If I complain about lack of care or some emergent condition, I get stifled eye-rolls and told there's nothing to worry about. I experienced this even as autoimmune disease caused sores all over my body, internal hemorrhaging and destroyed 15% of my brain tissue in my early 40s. Even then, doctors were still saying shit like, "My mom has some brain shrinkage too; it's nothing to be concerned about."

Currently as COVID has upstaged all normal medical activities, my CPAP and high blood pressure prescriptions are expired and unrenewed, and I haven't had a primary appointment in 5 1/2 months instead of the every 60 days that insurance recommended. This despite I've contacted my doc's office, the pharmacy and the DME. There's nothing else I can do but call them all again and hope somebody actually does their job.

It doesn't surprise me a bit that men die more often, because when they get sick, nobody gives a shit.

CNN didn't say "women are the real victims," OP did to start a flame war. CNN just said that men are being hit hard by the virus while women are being hit harder by the secondary effects of the virus.

You don't need a CPAP prescription unless you're buying a brand new machine. Surely your old machine still works and you don't need a CPAP right now.

Covid affects blood pressure and I'm having trouble believing your doctor's office won't renew your prescription for high blood pressure meds.

R9 My insurance requires a new order for CPAP supplies every 6 months.

Now that you mention it, the sleep doc said my 5 year replacement date for a new machine came up in February. She said she'd write a new order at my next appointment, which will probably be never, thanks to C19.

The doc's office is messy right now. People are working from home and I guess their usual way of doing things is disrupted. Calls don't get returned and paperwork is not completed or lost. And you can't visit the office in person. The pharmacy said a new prescription is needed. My old pharmacy would call the office themselves but this one told me to do it. I did it. I still don't have anything a week later.