Do you see parallels in this to people with untreated HIV infection and low T cell counts?

…on’t have any T cells to fight the infection, they’re going to trigger other kinds of immune cells. That is a way of compensating for not having the T cells, but that compensatory mechanism is actually going to backfire because those cytokines are pretty toxic to the host itself.”
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James Finn
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Jan 25, 2021
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Do you see parallels in this to people with untreated HIV infection and low T cell counts? Do out-of-control cytokine responses partly explain why some AIDS-related opportunistic infections are more dangerous and deadly than it would appear they should be?
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Written by James Finn28K Followers
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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.
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