[KC Burke]

When we were doing a lot of research for related threads back in 2002 when I think this was a hot topic, we were digging medical journals and the like. The CDC and immunologists in general know the unbelievable impact this would have on a modern healthy population. Most people entirely misunderstand the risk evaluation. The think of antibiotics and modern medicine in general being so advanced compared to 1918 that they simply discount the risk.

At that time was the first reference to the cytokine blast effect and posters thought we were making it up because no one had ever heard the term.

[MarMema]

I remember that too. I am pretty sure I learned about it here on FR. It came to mind when I read this article and I was searching for it...what was that thing where the youngest healthier populations were most at risk because of an explosive immune response to the lungs? From the spanish flu...but I was unable to find much with my primitive googling this morning.

There was another name for it - cytokine something...

[MarMema]

cytokine storm