Its likely from a gene therapy research virus that escaped a lab. Designed to increase Luteinizing hormone. Thus why it hits men harder especially those with already high blood pressure, hypertension, and metabolic issues
On cases by sex, have a look at this (”biological sex data”). I wonder if some decision makers might be concerned about allowing public panic.
https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/novel-coronavirus/results.php
Ah. Here’s why more men have been dying in some areas (but not all). Men are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Women have better immune systems. The Spanish Flu killed by people by causing their immune system to overreact, so it actually killed healthy adult people more than older and younger ones. This virus is behaving more like you’d expect to, being less deadly to people with better immune systems.