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Cytokines are a response to the illness.
by sjg007 6y ago
Cytokines are a response to the illness.
- rurban 6y agoNot even that, the virus itself is no illness. Cykotine causes the main illness, the dead cells in the lungs and elsewhere, which might cause bacterial infections. Of which you eventually die. The virus is just a dirty little unknown virus causing the immunosystem to overreact. In some cases. In most cases not.
- sjg007 6y agoThe virus kills cells.
- rurban 6y agoI've read only about 90% of all COVID-19 papers and I might have missed that one, which says that the virus itself kills cells, but the overwhelming data says the cytokinestorm kills infected cells. The virus is just an annoyance causing the immune system to run amok.