Author: Alcock, Joe; Masters, Alix
Title: Cytokine Storms, Evolution, and COVID-19 Cord-id: fa0s8z4q Document date: 2021_2_4
ID: fa0s8z4q
Snippet: 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 COVID-19, but so far, only one class of medications, corticosteroids, has proved useful. In recent decades, experimental therapies for cytokine storms have bee
Document: 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 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 expectations for novel interventions in COVID-19 and to bring an evolutionary medicine perspective to the concept of cytokine storms and their treatment.
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