Originally Posted by
jfsully
No.
Well, yes, if you are consuming news media or especially social media, and listening to politicians, odds are good someone is lying to you.
The testosterone/estrogen risks for covid, and the seeming contradiction, is not someone lying. It’s what happens when medical insights are generated and reported in real time. They sometimes seem self-contradictory and are sometimes just wrong.
Even for diseases and treatments that are well-established and have been exhaustively studied for years, we sometimes see that things are actually opposite to what we think we have proven.
This is why my primary contribution to the arguments over covid #s on this thread has been pretty unsatisfying: basically, in real time we don’t have good numbers, and have to work with shitty ones if we want to do anything. The corollary of this is that clinical insights generated during this phase are likely to miss the mark or be outright wrong (E.g. effect of ACE inhibitors, utility of hydroxychloroquine, how/when to ventilate). Testosterone/estrogen and the male/female effect on covid mortality may be one of these things that we misunderstand for a while before getting it right.
So you would be reckless to take estrogen or testosterone for covid purposes (unless you are enrolled in a clinical trial, in which case you are altruistic).