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Sweat sensor could alert doctors, patients to looming COVID cytokine storm
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Sweat sensor could alert doctors, patients to looming COVID cytokine storm

by  American Chemical Society A wristwatch-like device measures cytokine levels in passive sweat. Credit: Kai-Chun Lin Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors recognized that patients who developed a “cytokine storm”—a surge of pro-inflammatory immune proteins—were often the sickest and at highest risk of dying. But a cytokine storm can also occur in other illnesses, such as...