“The male hormone androgen is linked very strongly to baldness. it looks like having a lot of the male hormone is a risk factor.”
Biochemical geneticist and Australian Academy of Science Fellow, Professor Jenny Graves, speaks on the links between balding and the severity of COVID-19 symptoms.
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