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I thought the lethality was just the immune system running havoc. If a virus could achieve it, it would remain symptom-less and just spread.
by oezi 5y ago
I thought the lethality was just the immune system running havoc. If a virus could achieve it, it would remain symptom-less and just spread.
- XorNot 5y agoViruses lyse (explode) the cells they take over in order to exit the cell, since packaging for membrane transport is much more complicated. Unchecked, they would just exponentially destroy your tissue. Cytokine storm responses are a particular kind of immune system over-reaction that can make relatively benign viruses much more dangerous to a healthy host then a more immunologically suppressed host, but that's not the behaviour of COVID-19 which is showing pretty standard lethality profiles.