Could covid lead to a lifetime of autoimmune disease?

[wastwater]

https://www.technologyreview.com/20...dies-autoantibodies-immunity-cytokines-lupus/

Could covid lead to a lifetime of autoimmune disease?
Evidence is growing that in some people covid infections are producing autoantibodies targeting the body’s organs. If true, it could mean years of lingering sickness and misery for many.
“What rocked my world was seeing covid patients with levels of autoreactivity commensurate with an autoimmune disease like lupus,”

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DANIEL ZENDER

 

[wastwater]

I’m beginning to wonder if I may be able to escape into neuropsychiatric lupus

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

One of the reasons why it took twenty years longer than it should have done to work out that autoantibodies really are important in conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus is the deluge of poor quality reports on autoantibodies in the 1970s and 1980s.

Some autoantibodies are important, but most of them are irrelevant. I have not seen any good evidence yet that Covid induces autoantibodies that actually cause disease.