If @jkenney or @shandro wanted to direct research towards something productive, they might want to consider what's alluded to in this case:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/emergency-room-doctor-near-death-with-coronavirus-saved-with-experimental-treatment/ar-BB12Dd81
#abhealth #abpoli #ableg
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/emergency-room-doctor-near-death-with-coronavirus-saved-with-experimental-treatment/ar-BB12Dd81
#abhealth #abpoli #ableg
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There's reference to a term in here that I saw in several of the papers I looked at yesterday: 'cytokine storm'. /2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30628-0/fulltext
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30628-0/fulltext
What struck me in reading about this was the use of an immunosuppressant medication to slow down the body's overreaction in order to let the body fight the viral infection rather than fighting itself. /3
In terms of treating the most severe cases of COVID-19, this seems like a very significant observation. /4 ~fin~
Dagnabbit - a key link from the second tweet in this thread vanished: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30628-0/fulltext