• hackitfast@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    11 months ago

    Does anyone know yet if long COVID is an auto-immune disease? I only assume it is but otherwise don’t know.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      11 months ago

      It seems like a mix. Part from organ damage, part from misbehaving immune response in some people

    • psud@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      COVID is a virus, so not an autoimmune illness. Long COVID might be partly autoimmune

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      11 months ago

      All I heard overpandemic was that COVID was triggering diabetes in people which makes sense because we don’t know what triggers diabetes but one of the theories is it’s caused by viral stress.

      I bet any money they will one day find a genetic mutation like the one in BRCA2 that causes cancer.