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By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19. It may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself. The scientists also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a “cytokine storm,” so often believed to cause death.
Pneumonia is the most notorious complication of the COVID-19 pandemic. It can send patients to the emergency room gasping for air, put them on ventilators and…