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| Study: Respiratory failure in COVID-19 usually not driven by cytokine storm |
| 2020-11-14 |
| MedicalXPress via Instapundit ...A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., however, suggests that an out-of-control immune response is not the main problem for the vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Only 4% of patients in the study had the sky-high levels of immune molecules that signify a so-called "cytokine storm." The rest had inflammation, but not a remarkably high amount for people fighting infection. If anything, the COVID-19 patients had less inflammation than a comparable group of influenza patients. The findings, published Nov. 13 in Science Advances, help explain why anti-inflammatory medications such as dexamethasone benefit only a fraction of people with severe COVID-19, and suggest that more research is needed to identify the causes of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients. "One of the very first papers published on COVID-19 patients in China reported high levels of cytokines in people in intensive care, what we might call a cytokine storm," said co-senior author Philip Mudd, MD, Ph.D., an assistant professor of emergency medicine who sees patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Embrace a Chinese person, Herd Immunity (spread via WHO), now "cytokine storm". All coming from China - do I sense a pattern (combining biological with psychological warfare)? I wonder how Fauci came to conclusion that there isn't enough masks in USA? |
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