Is coronavirus worse for bald men?

The follically challenged could be at greater risk of having serious symptoms, researcher says
Australian Associated Press

Baldness is “a perfect predictor of severity” for COVID-19, a researcher says, after finding a high number of men with hair loss were hospitalised with the virus.

The UK’s Telegraph newspaper has reported on two studies in Spain that found that a disproportionately high number of men with male pattern baldness were taken to hospital with COVID-19.

The first study found 71% of the 41 patients with COVID-19 in Spanish hospitals were bald.

 The background rate of baldness for white men of a similar age to the patients was between 31% and 53%.