Department of Anesthesiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem

Moderate Fever Cycles as a Potential Mechanism to Protect the Respiratory System in COVID-19 Patients

Published in Frontiers in Medicine

Mortality in COVID-19 patients predominantly results from an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), in which lungs alveolar cells undergo programmed cell death. Mortality in a sepsis-induced ARDS rat model is reduced by adenovirus over-expression of the HSP70 chaperone. A natural rise of body temperature during mild fever can naturally accumul...