00:00New research shows that a majority of COVID-19 deaths may have been the result of an entirely different infection.
00:06The analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that a high number of people who required assistance from
00:12a ventilator due to coronavirus developed a secondary bacterial pneumonia.
00:17The research shows that pneumonia was actually responsible for more deaths than the COVID-19 infection itself.
00:23One of the study researchers said, quote, our study highlights the importance of preventing, looking for, and aggressively treating secondary
00:31bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients with severe pneumonia, including those with COVID-19.
00:37Experts reviewed the cases of 585 people admitted to the intensive care unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
00:45All of the patients had pneumonia and or respiratory failure, and 190 of them had COVID-19.
00:51Science Alert notes that these new findings refute the idea that a cytokine storm following COVID-19, which is an
00:58overwhelming inflammation response causing organ failure, was responsible for a significant number of deaths.
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