Magazine021 Question 8

Distractors

Blood poisoning

A few muscle aches

A quicker COVID-19 recovery

Key

Systemic inflammation and multi-organ failure

Question

In “Understanding COVID-19’s Cytokine Storm” by Til Luchau, the author says during a cytokine storm, capillaries damaged by the “inflammatory riot” can let the cytokine-rich fluids spill over into the bloodstream, resulting in: