> but it turns out that COVID causes multiple organ failure, treating which needs a wider range of facilities, and can progress very quickly from respiratory symptoms to that, so they aren't actually much use.

Just to be clear, COVID-19 contributes to organ failure in very limited cases from a statistical sense. So this is absolutely something that is happening, but just wanted to be clear that we are not seeing hordes of people keeling over from strokes, organ failure, etc.

It's known that the complications that come into play when the body has entered a cytokine-storm type state are very far-reaching. For the same reason that inflammation is a critical part of the healing process, systemic inflammation can cause incredible damage to organs and other physiological systems.