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> there's no cytokine storm with COVID-19. Could you provide a source?
by newcrobuzon 7y ago
> there's no cytokine storm with COVID-19.
Could you provide a source?
- danaris 7y agoI don't know of anywhere that provides a comprehensive list of things COVID-19 isn't. Could you provide a source that suggests that there is one? Everything I've seen so far (eg, [0]) points to the virus itself damaging respiratory tissue, and normal body immune response aggravating that locally to some extent. A cytokine storm [1] is, as I understand it, a massive systemic immune overreaction causing way too much inflammation, overwhelming the body all at once. That Wikipedia entry suggests that SARS may have caused a cytokine storm, at least in some patients, but from it and everything I understand about the phenomenon, it's recognizable in epidemiology largely by the greatly increased incidence of deaths among young, healthy patients—which is not at all what we see in COVID-19. [0] https://www.uticaod.com/zz/news/20200313/what-does-coronavirus-infection-do-inside-your-body https://www.uticaod.com/zz/news/20200313/what-does-coronavir... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome