Covid Can Boost Your Response To Flu Vaccines If You Re A Man
Biological sex has long been known to have some influence. “In general, males tend to have more severe infections than females,” says Camila Consiglio, a systems immunologist at Lund University in Sweden. “On the flip side, we know that females have better responses to vaccines.” But what wasn’t known before the pandemic is that an infection—such as Covid—can shift these sex differences, increasing the variation in immune responses across the population....