A small prospective #LongCovid study cohort assessing persistent virus, autoimmunity, or immune activation failed to show any of these features were present or differed from controls
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1528848802337153029?s=20&t=PLg8ieQmfFHBhVPjJKfK8g
“Importantly, they found no differences in the levels of immunologic markers that might
indicate a potential immunologic mechanism for PASC.” From accompanying editorial. Reminder: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1528879158830325760?s=20&t=PLg8ieQmfFHBhVPjJKfK8g
Many previous #LongCovid studies have documented auto-antibodies and persistent virus via biopsy. I don't only post
studies that people like, but rather those in high quality journals likely to receive attention. The editorialist framed the deficiencies of this paper well