Abstract: A method is provided for identifying a patient having a respiratory illness and administering to the patient a combination of an anti-inflammatory agent and a leukotriene inhibitor. The method may include treating respiratory illness associated with a coronavirus, and may it may further include reducing or preventing an inflammatory response or cytokine storm for those patients without impairing their immune response against the underlying pathogen.

Abstract: A method is provided for identifying a patient having a respiratory illness and administering to the patient a combination of an anti-inflammatory agent and a leukotriene inhibitor. The method may include treating respiratory illness associated with a coronavirus, and may it may further include reducing or preventing an inflammatory response or cytokine storm for those patients without impairing their immune response against the underlying pathogen.

Abstract: Described herein are methods useful for normalizing any biomarker in platelets. This has application in any method in which one wishes to ascertain or compare the level of a biomarker, e.g., for diagnostic or prognostic methods relating to a biomarker of interest. Using such an approach can permit the assessment of disease status (e.g., angiogenic status) of an individual with less error than an expression value that is not normalized or that is normalized to total protein levels. Also provided are methods for selecting a normalizing protein for normalizing biomarkers in a sample, e.g., a platelet sample.