@roger,
I'm mixed on my feelings, and don't know enough for actual opinions - I fear panic about something that turns out to be non pandemic almost as much (re its potential effects) as a pandemic... but, of course, not really.
As a side feature, I'm interested in the cytokine stuff - the '93 clip was all news to me. Back in my lab days, we had been working with lymphokines and macrophages and had gotten some 'never before' results which we didn't believe and tested again and again and they turned out to be true, last I knew, re the matter of specificity, which had then surmised ramifications. I've tried to look all that up since and only gotten as far as that our papers were referenced a lot. But I'm not privy to access to serious medical sites at this point - not to mention they'd be 'over my head' now. Eh, and I don't want to bother my now much older boss, the smarty, just as much older as I am, but he had more years to start with. On the other hand, if he's still kicking, maybe he'll write a book about it.