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You Can’t Fight the Virus Without Harming the Economy
Despite Beijing’s best efforts, there have been large outbreaks of Covid-19 across China.
12 Mar 2020, 07:44 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- When Covid-19 strikes, the worst of the damage is done by the body’s effort to fight off the disease. The immune system can overreact in what doctors call a cytokine storm. Immune cells attack not just the viral invader but healthy tissue as well. Victims gasp for breath as their lungs fill with fluid. The novel coronavirus, which scientists have christened SARS-CoV-2, tricks us into fighting it so hard th...
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