Why Are Some Patients Hit So Hard?

KIMT News 3's George Mallet is asking Dr. Brian McDouough

Flooding facts./// kimt news three is committed to getting you the best medical information about covi?19.

That's why george has been checking in frequently with doctor brian mcdonough, the chief medical contributor for cbs radio.

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What i've been doing is just posing the questions our viewers have about the virus to doctor mcdonough.

And one of the questions we all have is: why are some people so completely devastated by the virus and others able to bounce back with few if any symptoms. we've talked about the enormous burden thrust upon intensive care units across the country.... and the necessity for some patients to be put on oxygen and ventilators when the virus causes widespread inflammation in the respiratory tract.

Dr. mcdonough tells us this may have less to do with the virus itself than it does with our own immuno response to the viru?

But the question remains largely unanswered.

Xxx we don't know why it happens.we do know kind of what happens.

The body starts attacking the virus and you have this thing called a cytokine storm.

You actually get this reaction in your body that's really aggressive and it hurts everything in its way including the lungs and that's the problem.

Dr. mcdonough reiterated that the underlying health conditions we've talked so much about including diabetes, asthma and heart diseas??

Make a rough go of this infinitely more likely.

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Being strong and healthy is no guarantee that you won't endure that aggressive immuno