Peet Tetteroo11h ago
Brad Mitchell
March 24, 2026- “A growing body of evidence suggests that long COVID (or post-COVID syndrome), a condition affecting more than 10% of people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, may be driven by the immune system turning against the body. Now, new research coordinated by UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC provides some of the strongest functional evidence yet that autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly target the body's own tissues) could play a causal role.” “What is really striking," say both co-leads of the study, "is that three independent research groups have recently reported similar findings, adding confidence to the emerging autoimmune signature of long COVID." -https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-autoantibodies-implicated-drivers-covid.html
Autoantibodies implicated as drivers of long COVID in new study

A growing body of evidence suggests that long COVID (or post-COVID syndrome), a condition affecting more than 10% of people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, may be driven by the immune system turning against the body. Now, new research coordinated by UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC provides some of the strongest functional evidence yet that autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly target the body's own tissues) could play a causal role. The work appears in Cell Reports Medicine.

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Show threadNic The Briny13h ago

@Brad I've suspected long COVID is at least partially a low-grade autoimmune encephalitis for the past year or so. The symptoms match very closely, but it doesn't seem to progress to the same degree as something like anti-NMDAR encephalitis does.

Psychiatric symptoms, fatigue, trouble swallowing, motor disturbances, headaches, visual disturbances and variable visual acuity, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and many other issues - all symptoms of anti-NMDAR encephalitis, which is often diagnosed and treated based on symptoms since few, if any, tests are definitive in all cases.