Everyone’s Talking about COVID 19 and Cytokines
It’s on the news, on the radio, email articles and on social media! Everyone is worried about this novel corona virus- COVID 19. And our immune systems are a large part of the discussion, regarding whether or not a person will be susceptible to dying from it. If you get it you could encounter a so-called cytokine “storm”.
I can understand very little of the technical data in scientific articles or discussions on this cytokine topic. The gist that I get from most articles is that cytokines have something to do with inflammation and our immune system, but what it all means is “greek” to me. Some say cytokines are good; some say they’re bad. What’s really going on here?
Finally I’ve found some easy to understand explanations of all of this! A medical doctor named, Dr Patrick Flynn has done a video for us. So without further ado, I present this link to a very nicely explained talk on this whole subject.