This article argues that while most of the questions currently asked with relation to Covid-19 are of a scientific and technical nature, crucial to containing the outbreak; such as, how infectious is it? How long does it incubate in the body before you get sick? And can it be spread by people who have no symptoms?, there are other, unanswered questions that also need to be addressed but are rarely even asked. The author’s own research demonstrates that outbreak responses consistently fail to meaningfully include gender analysis. This is despite substantial evidence from other researchers that gender inequities exacerbate outbreaks, and responses that do not incorporate gender analysis exacerbate inequities.

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