Epidemiologists, virologists, and infectious disease specialists have attempted to explain these sex differences in the consequences of COVID-19 predominantly in terms of medical variables that differentiate men and women, such as differences in sex steroid hormones (Lipsa & Prabhu, 2021), levels of growth hormone (Lubrano et al., 2021), immune responses (Li & Li, 2021), genetic predispositions for contracting COVID-19 (Bartz et al., 2020), comorbidities (Salah & Mehta, 2020), and lifestyles (Abate et al., 2020). The gene discussed is GH1; the disease is COVID-19.