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Study links severe COVID-19 to increase in self-attacking antibodies

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are substantially more likely to harbor autoantibodies – antibodies directed at their own tissues or at substances their immune cells secrete into the blood – than people without COVID-19, according to a new study.