[khaledkteily]

Yep! We wrote a post about it a while back (https://www.givelegacy.com/resources/will-covid-19-affect-ma...). I was proud that we have developed enough domain authority to be the #1 Google result for a couple of months for 'COVID19 and male fertility'.

In brief:

1. Theoretically, yes. The testes have the second-highest number of ACE2 receptors, after the lungs. This could explain why men are more likely to get COVID-19 than men.

2. In the short-term COVID-19 is likely to decrease sperm quality, similar to the flu. this we can say with reasonable confidence, but it's nothing particularly scary.

3. We don't know if there are longer-term effects. We've already heard about potential scarring in the lungs, for example. What is the same was true in the testes? After all, some viruses like Zika CAN have longer-term effects.

The fact is, there has been no conclusive research yet, so we are running a study ourselves to try to identify some preliminary evidence.