Exploring the Secrets of the Corona Virus: Gender Competition in Antibodies Production to Combat COVID-19

Abstract

We did a pilot study in the month of July 2020 in Qazi Hussain Ahmed Medical complex Nowshera with aim to determine the gender protective role in term of production of neutralizing Anti SARS-COV-2 antibodies. A total of 39 COVID-19 patients with recovery were selected and their antibodies cut off values were measured by electro-chemiluminescence immunoassay using Roche Cobas E411 Chemistry Analyzer for which commercial kits of Roche diagnostics were used as per the instructions of the manufacturer. It was observed that Difference in mean post infection antibodies level was statistically significant with higher cut off values in patient who had symptoms at time of being reported positive by PCR as compared to patient who were asymptomatic (p-value:0.04). We predicted using Kaplan Meir that female gender the probability of survival as 70% in with cut off values of 100, while a vertical drop up to less than 20% probability of survival was predicted in male gender. Hence female gender produces higher level of antibodies in early infections to confer immunity in COVID-19.