That Cytokine Storm
5 min readMar 27, 2020
By Nana Dadzie Ghansah
NOTE: The following is a rather simple discussion of a very, very, very complex topic!
It has long been believed that death from infections due to pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, or even malaria or the flu, is not really from the virulence of the pathogen per se but is often the result of the body mounting an over-the-top innate immune reaction to the invasion of the pathogen.
