Of the male COVID-19 patients sent to ICU at the German hospital, more than two thirds (68.6 per cent) recorded low levels of testosterone. Professor Gülsah Gabriel from the Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology in Hamburg, who was involved in the research, told MailOnline: 'The majority of male COVID-19 patients had low testosterone levels. 'Of those male COVID-19 patients who died, the majority also had low testosterone levels. The virus-positive men who had low testosterone levels were also very likely to have high inflammatory cytokine levels. Low testosterone levels was also correlated with a higher chance of death after contracting the virus.

Source: Daily Mail May 13, 2020 10:52 UTC