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Warpy

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4. It was the working theory to explain the 1918 flu deaths

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Mon Apr 13, 2020, 12:06 AM

Apr 2020

in young and healthy people, but there hasn't been a way to prove it.

The problem is that there are many cytokine subtypes and it's going to take a lot of work over the long term to learn which subtypes are implicated and what it will take to reduce them without killing the patient.

A good overview of the various types, what they do, some of the disease process they are known to mediate, and some of the drugs already out there to target and suppress some of the disease causing cytokines is https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mi/2013/434010/ Laypeople can skip the alphabet soup, difficult charts, and medicalese in the middle. The rest of the article explains things very clearly to non immunologists.

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Haywire Immune Response Eyed in Coronavirus Deaths, Treatment [View all] question everything Apr 2020 OP

Fascinating.....and Terrifying Rorey Apr 2020 #1

What a horrible experience you had. I am sorry for your loss question everything Apr 2020 #2

Thank you....it was several decades ago Rorey Apr 2020 #3

It was the working theory to explain the 1918 flu deaths Warpy Apr 2020 #4

Pregnant women are supposed to have this BigmanPigman Apr 2020 #5