{"id":8312,"date":"2024-12-11T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2024-12-11T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:29:00","slug":"johns-hopkins-scientists-uncover-hidden-trigger-behind-covid-19s-deadly-cytokine-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/11\/johns-hopkins-scientists-uncover-hidden-trigger-behind-covid-19s-deadly-cytokine-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Scientists Uncover Hidden Trigger Behind COVID-19\u2019s Deadly Cytokine Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/johns-hopkins-scientists-uncover-hidden-trigger-behind-covid-19s-deadly-cytokine-storm\/\">SciTechDaily<\/a> <strong>Scientists discovered that overactivation of immune genes and the RAAS system causes cytokine storms in severe&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;cases. This leads to widespread inflammation and organ damage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pittsburgh, and Weill Cornell Medicine, as part of the COVID-19 International Research Team, identified a novel cause of cytokine storm\u2014an extreme inflammatory response linked to a higher risk of death in COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their findings were recently reported in the journal\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/johns-hopkins-scientists-uncover-hidden-trigger-behind-covid-19s-deadly-cytokine-storm\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SciTechDaily Scientists discovered that overactivation of immune genes and the RAAS system causes cytokine storms in severe&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;cases. This leads to widespread inflammation and organ damage. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pittsburgh, and Weill Cornell Medicine, as part of the COVID-19 International Research Team, identified a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}