[roadcat]

A similarity to the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, regarding "cytokine storm" reaction that killed healthy young adults - this excerpt from news out of China.

About a third of the 41 patients needed intensive care, and six of them died. Some of the patients with more serious illnesses suffered from a dangerous immune system overreaction called a cytokine storm, but the researchers said they still did not have a good understanding of how the virus affects the immune system.

[steve86]

From what I am reading a cytokine storm isn't a given with this one. Maybe in certain of those patients with comorbid illnesses. If a C. Storm were hitting every patient, they would die quicker and tend to succumb in the suddenly drop dead mode, more than we have seen. I am not medical staff but read a lot during SARS, etc., days.