THE CYTOKINE STORM (Why COVID-19 is deadly to healthy people)

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6. That's a pretty big "if."

Viral load might also be a factor, which is why China saw so many severe cases among health care workers, especially at the beginning when their officials were acting like our Presidunce and trying to pretend it away.

One hazy theory about the 1918 pandemic and it's lethality to the young and healthy was that they had somehow been sensitized as children under 10 to a pandemic of similar virus that had come through 20 years or so earlier. It's only a theory and a rather hazy one, at that, but there are few other ways to explain the odd pattern of the 1918 pandemic.