Rogue antibodies could be driving severe COVID-19
More details about the important work that one of our grantees, Dr. Aaron Ring at Yale University, has been contributing to throughout the pandemic. He has been focused on discovering answers to questions like why do some people get so much sicker than others? What is behind the extended, multi-organ illness that lasts for months in people with ‘long COVID’?
A growing number of studies suggest that some of these questions might be explained by the immune system mistakenly turning against the body — a phenomenon known as autoimmunity. Read the full article here.