How COVID-19 Sets Off a Deadly “Cytokine Storm” in Some Patients, According to Doctors
, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Even in young, healthy people, they can get enormously sick very rapidly because their immune system is so strong,” he says.
In the case of COVID-19, it’s a completely new illness that your body hasn’t detected before, explains , a lung specialist and vice chancellor for translational medicine and science at Rutgers University. Essentially, your body may not know how to handle the presence of the virus and overreact., and some forms of cancer treatment like immunotherapy can also induce a cytokine storm, the NCI says.At first, most people will have a general feeling of being unwell, but “it can happen suddenly, or you can have a precipitous worsening of the infection,” Dr. Panettieri says.
Then, they may experience shock and dangerously low blood pressure, and “that’s when the cytokine storm really kicks in,” he says. Blood vessels will start to leak, andWhile some
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