[Steely Tom]

I wonder why the cytokine storm ?

[FreeReign]

I wonder why the cytokine storm ?

That's your immune system overeating to the virus in your lungs.

The same think happens when you have psoriasis.

[ifinnegan]

“I wonder why the cytokine storm ?”

Happens in severe infections.

[Pelham]

“I wonder why the cytokine storm ?”

It’s an immune system over-reaction to the strange virus. A massive over-reaction that if it’s in the lung can drown you in antibodies.

The 1918 flu is suspected to have caused cytokine storms in tbe young and healthy. Healthy adults could develop flu symptoms in the morning and be dead by evening. Normal flus kill by secondary pneumonia. Hybrid animal/human flus can provoke cytokine storm.

This Covid-19 virus is largely a bat coronavirus. So I suppose like hybrid flus that makes it something of a zoonotic disease

[GWynand]

This discussion got me searching and there is a Dr.Randy Cron at the University of Alabama that says it is largely genetic..in about 15% of the population. He has also researched the drug anakinra to treat it. This is also used on arthritis as is Hydroxychloroquine.

[budj]

...why the Cytokine storm..."

Your own immune system fights back and goes on overload.

https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-cytokine-storm.htm