Scientists pour cold water on ‘intriguing’ — and potentially fatal — similarity between COVID-19 and 1918 flu

‘Cytokine storms,’ a hyperinflammatory immune response to the influenza of 1918, was seen as one reason healthy people were so hard hit. How big a role have they played in 2020?

‘Cytokine storms,’ a hyperinflammatory immune response to the influenza of 1918, was seen as one reason healthy people were so hard hit. How big a role have they played in 2020?