Does COVID-19 discriminate? This is how some Canadians are harder-hit

There are a few things we know about COVID-19's impact on different groups of Canadians. We know that women made up 54 per cent of Canada's confirmed COVID-19 patients as of Tuesday, even though they account for only slightly more than 50 per cent of the population. We also know that older Canadians appear more at risk. Twelve per cent of all cases have been confirmed in patients 80 years of age or older, despite their proportion of the total population being less than half that, and those under