Reply #105: cytakine storms occur in response to an entirely new pathogen

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that a healthy immune system hasn't seen before. So there is no vaccine that will help in that case because the virus hasn't been around to have one developed for it.

As far as tamiflu helping to ameliorate a cytokine storm, that is what I was wondering about myself. If that is why the U.S. cases have been milder. But I don't know how tamiflu works -- what it targets chemically. Or if the U.S. victims even took tamiflu, although I figure most Americans pop a pill at the first sneeze, cough or sniffle.