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“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more
To make matters worse, sometimes the immune system overreacts to the invader, setting in motion something known as a “cytokine storm” that worsens, rather than improves, the situation. In the process, the body releases substances intended to help coordinate the defense against the invader, but the substances wind up harming cells in the lungs (and
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