Health
Some severe COVID-19 cases may be due to faulty genes, misguided antibodies, say scientists – National Herald
More than 10% of young and healthy people who develop severe COVID-19 have misguided antibodies that attack not the virus, but the immune system itself, according to a new study
The researchers confirmed these findings using biochemical experiments which showed that these auto-antibodies can effectively curb the activity of interferon type I.
In some cases the auto-antibodies could be detected in blood samples taken before patients became infected and in others, they said, these were found in the early stages of the infection, before the immune system had the time to mount a response.
However, the auto-antibodies seem to be rare in the general population, the scientis…
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