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Baldness Won’t Make You Die From COVID-19
Why you probably don’t need to worry about your hair or lack thereof when it comes to coronavirus
Going bald is an experience. First, you pretend it’s not happening. Then, it becomes obvious to everyone, and you take pains to try and hide it where possible. Finally, you embrace the hairlessness and just hope that you have a reasonably nice-shaped head.
But as A Baldy, the news in the last few weeks has been very worrying. Recently, news headlines have been popping up about a terrifying idea — apparently, studies have shown that bald people are more likely to suffer severe disease from COVID-19 and even die than our hairier counterparts.
As someone who is cursed with a shiny head, this is a pretty big worry. On top of sunburn in winter, I now have to be stressed about dying from COVID-19 as well?
Fortunately, the research doesn’t really show anything of the sort.
