Season 1 · Episode 55
055 - Cytokine Storms and COVID-19 Severity
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 28, 202016m 7s
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Show Notes
For the subset of people who become critically ill from the novel coronavirus, cytokine storms could be to blame. This severe inflammatory disease happens when the immune system goes haywire in response to a novel threat. Rheumatology fellow Dr. Max Konig and neurosurgeon Dr. Chetan Bettegowda talk with Stephanie Desmon about the vital role of cytokine in immune responses, how to identify who might be at risk, and how research is looking into stopping the storms before they start.
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