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<<Caixin: A 39-year-old patient in Hong Kong suffered from cardiac arrest, and his death ensued quickly. A few patients did not have severe symptoms upon the onslaught of the virus or in early stages, but they died suddenly. Some experts argue that the virus triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults. Eventually excessive inflammations caused by cytokine result in the higher mortality rate. Have you seen such a phenomenon in the coronavirus outbreak?
Peng: Based on my observations, a third of patients exhibited inflammation in their whole body. It was not necessarily limited to young adults. The mechanism of a cytokine storm is about whole-body inflammation, which leads to a failure of multiple organs and quickly evolves into the terminal stage. In some fast-progressing cases, it took two to three days to progress from whole-body inflammation to the life-threatening stage.>>
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As I posted to you last Friday, this description sounds like a septic process, doesn't it? Or something terribly similar.
If this cytokine storm is affecting a third of patients, could this be the reason some cases are mild and others are deadly?
I was asking about it last Friday because I was worried about my daughter, age 40, who is going to India this week, and she had fallen victim to septic shock in 2018. I put the above observations in my post, but it wasn't clearly differentiated and I didn't include the link. |
