[QUOTE=Peter H;10687677]Anybody have information on any link between 2019-nCoV and "cytokine storms"? I'd sort of assumed there would be,
but the high average age of the fatalities suggest not.
Chinese doctors suggest that the cytokine storm is a consequence of oxygen starvation and consequent cell death in the lungs. Essentially, the body's clean up ,squad working overtime, if I understand it correctly.
Their focus is to ensure adequate oxygenation of the patient, even by forced oxygen ventilation, with the hope that eventually the victim recovers. Absent a drug option, this kind of supportive treatment is all that is available.
Hence the efforts to use the blood plasma of recovered patients as well as experimental drugs such as remdesivir, we are groping in the dark.