By DAVID BROOKS
The Concord Monitor

Women continue to come down with COVID-19 at much higher rates than men in New Hampshire but they don’t get seriously sick as often, and men are much more likely to die from the novel coronavirus.

As of last week, according to state statistics, 56.5 percent of all confirmed cases were in women, but only 41.5 percent of hospitalized patients were women and only 44.5 percent of patients who died were women. The latter fact is particularly striking because the 86 percent of deaths in the state have occurred in people over the age of 70, a group where women significantly outnumber men.

This pattern is found in many places and has been consistent since the pandemic spread in New Hampshire.

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