Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Our focus is the novel coronavirus.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.

Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's

news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.

If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.

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Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to two faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Health, Sabra Klein, and Rosemary Morgan.

They talk about the impact that sex and gender have on the current pandemic,

with the coronavirus killing many more men than women.

Let's listen.

I'm here today with Sabra Klein, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,

and Rosemary Morgan, a social scientist at the school.

Today we're going to talk about the sex and gender effects in the current coronavirus pandemic.

Let's start with terminology.

Talk to me what the difference is when we start talking about sex and gender.

Sabra?

Stephanie, thank you so much.

So when we talk about sex and gender, what we're really trying to do

is make the complementary but yet distinction between our biology, which is what we refer to as our sex.

And so biological differences between males and females that can be mediated by our reproductive hormones, the presence of different

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