055 - Cytokine Storms and COVID-19 Severity

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, Health & Fitness, News

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

For the subset of people who become critically ill from the novel coronavirus, cytokine storms could be to blame. This severe inflammatory disease happens when the immune system goes haywire in response to a novel threat. Rheumatology fellow Dr. Max Konig and neurosurgeon Dr. Chetan Bettegowda talk with Stephanie Desmon about the vital role of cytokine in immune responses, how to identify who might be at risk, and how research is looking into stopping the storms before they start.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.7	Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Max Koenig and Chathen Betigalda, two Johns Hopkins experts
0:50.2	who have been studying why the immune system sometimes overreacts to COVID-19,
0:56.2	causing a deadly cascade in some patients.
0:59.5	They discuss the search for ways to bring the immune system back into balance,
1:04.2	and they hope save lives.
1:06.6	Let's listen.
1:08.0	I'm here today with Max Koenig, a Rheumatology Fellow at Johns Hopkins,
1:13.3	and Chathen Betagowda, a neurosurgery professor
1:16.2	at Johns Hopkins.
1:17.4	Thank you both for joining me.
1:19.2	Thank you very much, Stephanie.
1:20.5	Pleasure to be here.
1:21.8	We are going to talk today about the immune system
1:25.5	and how obviously it plays an important role in keeping us safe
1:31.8	from diseases like COVID-19, but also what you all are learning is that it may be actually
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