At a Glance

• In a small study, about half of people hospitalized with COVID-19 had antibodies in their blood that could mistakenly attack the body’s own proteins and tissues.
• More work is needed to see if these autoantibodies contribute to the symptoms of “long COVID,” or have other effects later in life.

From: Autoimmune response found in many with COVID-19 | National Institutes of Health (NIH)