What #DrBHenry ‘s ‘recovered’ can look forward to: #COVID19 Could Trigger Autoimmune Disease Even After Recovery, Stanford Univ Study Shows | IFLScience iflscience.com/health-and-med…
“Within a week after checking in at the hospital, about 20 % of [hospitalized COVID-19] patients had developed new antibodies to their own tissues that weren't there day they were admitted… autoantibody levels were similar to what you'd see in a diagnosed autoimmune disease.”
“When the researchers analyzed the blood of nearly 200 hospitalized #COVID19 patients compared to a healthy control group, they found anti-cytokine antibodies in three-fifths of the #COVID19 patients – four times the levels found in the control group”
“We can't say yet that you'll definitely get an autoimmune disease – we haven't studied any patients long enough to know whether these autoantibodies are still there a year or two later,” he added. “But you certainly might. I wouldn't want to take that chance.” #COVID19
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