Healthy Men: Casualties in the war on COVID

Dear Healthy Men: You’ve written several columns about the effect that COVID-19 has had on men. What about women? I’ve read recently, for example, that women are being affected disproportionately in the war on COVID because most of the jobs that have been lost were held by women. As Hillary Clinton once said, “Women have always been the primary victims of war.” Why are you ignoring female casualties? A: Considering that over 90% of military wartime fatalities are men, I’ve always thought that Clinton’s famous quote was dangerously inaccurate. Clearly, she — and you — are defining “victims” mor…

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