months to a global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by this highly contagious virus,
can have serious health consequences, though risks of complications are highly age-
dependent. Rates of hospitalization and death are less than 0.1% in children, but increase to
10% or more in older people. Moreover, at all ages, men are more likely than women to
suffer serious consequences from COVID-19. These patterns are familiar to the geroscience …