Long COVID: How Researchers are Zeroing in on the Self-Targeted Immune Attacks That May Lurk Behind it
"Studies revealed that patients with severe COVID-19 share some of the key traits of chronic autoimmune diseases."
laurie allee on Twitter
“Recent research suggests people with long Covid are more likely to have markers of autoimmune disease in their blood a year after infection.”
Mw on Twitter
Detailed Twitter thread: IBD is an autoimmune condition, which studies have shown increases a person’s chances of Long Covid. Now doctors are seeing both de novo IBD after Covid and worsening of existing IBD. (see this thread). More research is needed. Another reason for high grade mask & ventilation.
How Effects on the Brain Can Produce Long COVID - Neuroscience News
"scientists believe some symptoms may be caused by autoimmunity—in which the immune system is turned on to fight an incoming pathogen, but mistakenly recognizes the body’s own cells as targets. How Effects on the Brain Can Produce Long COVID -