COVID-19 Can Cause Immune System To Attack Patient’s Own Body

 

In severe cases of COVID-19 as the findings show, the cause of severeness in other COVID-19 patients is that the disease is causing the patients’ immune system to attack the patients own bodies attacking their own tissues. This case is called autoimmune disorder or autoimmune disease where the immune system makes the patients ‘bodies an enemy or a production of autoantibody in the body. It produces an antibody not attacking the virus but rather the patients ‘bodies itself thus causing severeness on the disease the patient is suffering.

 

“Across the world, immunologists who retooled their labs to join the fight against SARS-CoV-2 are furiously trying to explain why some people get so sick while others recover unscathed. The pace is dizzying, but some clear trends have emerged. One area of focus has been the production of antibodies – powerful proteins capable of disabling and killing invading pathogens like viruses. Of great concern has been the sporadic identification of so-called autoreactive antibodies that, instead of targeting disease causing microbes, target the tissues of individuals suffering from severe cases of COVID-19.” (The Conversation)

 

“……the alarming finding that in the sickest patients with COVID-19, autoantibody production is common – a finding with large potential impact on both acute patient care and infection recovery. Severe infection is linked with autoantibody production. Autoantibodies come in “flavors” that are usually associated with specific disease types. Patients with lupus, for example, will often have antibodies that target their own DNA – the molecules that make up the human genome.” (The Conversion)

“While these findings raise concerns, there are things that our data don’t reveal. Although patients with severe disease clearly display autoantibody responses, the data don’t tell us to what extent these autoantibodies contribute to the most severe symptoms of COVID-19.”(The Conversation)

“Most concerning, it is possible that these responses could self-perpetuate in some patients, resulting in the emergence of new, permanent autoimmune disorders.”(The Conversation)

The main point : COVID-19 causes the sufferer to have an attack on his or her own immune system