Why Covid-19 patients become critically ill
It is kinda funny how human society mirrors the human body. In the small have the innate immune system that buys time for the adaptive immune system. Then in the large we've got a bunch of desperate temporary measures to try and slow disease down to buy time to gather data and logistics for a scientific response. Must be a very stable pattern for dealing with disease.
The coronavirus might be about to win some sort of record for going from novel to what I assume is about to be very, very well understood. Most of the studies that kicked off in early 2020 should be out by now and leaking into medical practice.
Now this is scary and unheard of ???.
Afaik the immune system does occasionally go haywire i.e it attacks "self" (Type I diabetes) because the mechanism that zaps "self" T/B cells goes wrong.
Malformed antibodies seems like something novel in a disease and fundamental new attack vector in a virus ???.
I would appreciate more information on how the various kinds of vaccines impact chances of getting a cytokine storm.
It's sad that medical advice offers little to people, effectively waiting until people are suffocating to rush them to the hospital.
There's something seriously broken about how people are being treated.