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An autoimmune-like antibody response is linked with severe COVID-19

  • Written by Matthew Woodruff, Instructor, Lowance Center for Human Immunology, Emory University
An autoimmune-like antibody response is linked with severe COVID-19Are patients with severe COVID-19 victims of their own immune response?JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/Getty Images

In the earliest days of the pandemic, many immunologists, including me, assumed that patients who produced high quantities of antibodies early in infection would be free from disease. We were wrong.

Several months into studying COVID-19, like other...

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