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Early in her career, Iris Navarro-Millán worked at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where most of her patients had lupus, an autoimmune disease that can affect various parts of the body, including the kidneys, blood and even the brain. Its sufferers are especially prone to cytokine storms, which are often triggered by viral infections. What Navarro-Millán saw now in her COVID-19 patients wasn't, she thought, all that different from what she encountered in Alabama.
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