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The banging on the door at 3 in the morning of March 12, 1938, by Gestapo agents was fierce. They were rousing Otto Loewi out of bed to drag him off to jail. His crime? Loewi was Jewish.

One of the critical lethal features of COVID was cytokine storm, a severe imbalance of pro-inflammatory chemical mediators. Similar imbalances are seen in sepsis, and a a more chronic, debilitating version as autoimmune diseases.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a third of U.S. adults are obese.