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Some Covid Survivors Have Antibodies That Attack the Body, not Virus – The New York Times
New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune…
Its not just that these patients have an autoimmune-like immune response, he said. Its that those immune responses are coupled with actual true testable clinical auto-reactivities.
Some of the autoantibodies the researchers identified are associated with blood flow problems, noted Ann Marshak-Rothstein, an immunologist and lupus expert at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.
Its very possible that some of the coagulation issues that you see in Covid-19 patients are being driven by these kinds…
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