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Cytokine Storms, Evolution And Covid-19, Joe Alcock, Alix Masters
Cytokine Storms, Evolution And Covid-19, Joe Alcock, Alix Masters
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
Since the identification of severe illness caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the role of the host immune system in causing disease has attracted widespread attention, along with intense interest in medical interventions that target the host immune response. A wide variety of agents have been proposed to treat a cytokine storm in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but so far, only one class of medications, corticosteroids, has proved useful. In recent decades, experimental therapies for cytokine storms have been tried and mostly failed to help patients with severe sepsis and other infections. We summarize this history in order to frame …