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When COVID-19 is severe, rogue antibodies attack body tissues and organs – News-Medical.Net

The study, published in the journal Nature, sheds light on the disease mechanism of COVID-19 and how the virus causes a faulty immune system.

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), impacts patients in various ways. While most people develop only mild to moderate symptoms, some patients experience severe and potentially fatal symptoms.
COVID-19 presents with a wide range of clinical manifestations characterized by misdirected and exaggerated innate immune responses. The role of autoantibodies in disease progression is unknown, but these activations have been…

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