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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? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Flu shot last week. If I die in a wreck next week, "COVID", I'm sure |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-11-14 20:19 |
| #2 The internet has been turned into the greatest propaganda and disinformation tools ever known to man. Goebbels and Riefenstahl |
| Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 2020-11-14 20:13 |
| #1 Seems to me that most of the "COVID" death are actually normal flu related death of people who would have died from the flu anyway. At least that's my impression from reading between the lines. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-11-14 19:26 |