Post-COVID syndrome: the aftershock of SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

Significant time has passed since the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, which led to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection in hundreds of millions of individuals all around the globe. An accumulation of evidence during the pandemic raised awareness of an association between the SARS-CoV-2 and autoimmunity (Dotan et al., 2021 Apr). SARS-CoV-2 infected patients have a high presence of various autoantibodies (Dotan et al., 2021 Apr). Moreover, numerous cases of new-onset of autoimmune-related disorders have been documented following infection, including both organ-specific and systemic autoimmune diseases (Dotan et al., 2021 Apr).

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