Thanks to all who replied about cytokine storms.
I asked because I vaguely remember a SARS related article that talked about the use drugs to dampen this misplaced immune response.
In particular the
repurposing of already-approved off-the-shelf drugs. Although I've seen mention of -- often new -- anti-virals I've not seen
mention of anti-immune-response ones. (Maybe because it's so old-hat that it's not worth mentioning.)
PS Re the query about the origin of the virus, I've seen suggestions that the virus may have originated in bats (cf Elboa?).
As a thread search for
bats was unsuccessful, here's a quickly-chosen ref:
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuha...20-1?r=US&IR=T