Medicine Grand Rounds: COVID-19 Pandemic through a Gendered Lens (Recorded Webinar)

Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education, Medicine Grand Rounds: COVID-19 Pandemic through a Gendered Lens (Recorded Webinar), 8/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - 8/25/2022 12:00:00 AM,

Internet Enduring Material sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine. Presented by the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. 

This webinar series provided an update on COVID in-patient status, a presentation on the Pandemic Through a Gendered Lens, including discussions of Pandemics create inequalities for women and girls and heighten marginalized groups. Socially relevant variables have significant impacts on COVID-19 outcomes. Other factors include gender/sex, age, race and or ethnicity and comorbidity status. Discussed the rate of deaths in CA as it relates to men and women. More men than women have died from COVID-19. Discussed why more men than women have died from this disease.  Discussed the impact of menopause on those affected by COVID. Also discussed the impact of COVID on women and girls, also on the LGBTQ populations. Discussed the 5 recommendations for a gendered lens approach to COVID-19 including: ensure policies and interventions are inclusive of everyone’s needs, prevent diversion of resources from sexual and reproductive health access programs, incorporate voices of women and women leadership on the front lines of the response, prioritize the collection of accurate sex-disaggregated data in research efforts and develop safety net infrastructures for women in the community and in the academy.