COVID-19: males and females among total and fatal lab-confirmed cases...

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Males are the predominant host for COVID-19 cases that are severe enough to warrant a hospital visit (or the contacts thereof). 

As ever, we have no real idea of the extent to which COVID-19 is circulating among those who are not ill enough to present to a hospital. Only the use of a sensitive virus detection method on less ill or healthy people could tell us that. Such testing seems to be anathema, perhaps due to cost (?), for COVID-19, CORONA-CoV or Covid-19 for that matter. So much we don't know but settle for in the respiratory virus game. But some of us go collectively bananas when a case turns up somewhere "unexpected".

Finally, the COVID-19 fatality data are severely hobbled by a lack of linkage between COVID-19 case notification and which cases died. That linkage broke somewhere after April. Reporting has improved drastically of late with the WHO confirming cases and details but 12 fatal COVID-19 cases are publicly lacking enough information to use in sex-related charts, age-related charts, dates-of-onset/reporting charts or dates-of-death charts. 

I'm grateful to the WHO today for responding to a request and noting that 52 deaths have been reported to them, bringing the proportion of fatal COVID-19 cases to 29%.