Research MOSCOW, Jan 9 Antibodies arising in people who have had COVID-19, are capable of mistakenly attacking healthy cells of organs and tissues of the body. According to the Journal of Translational Medicine (JTM), a group of researchers from the Heart Institute in Los Angeles, USA, came to this conclusion, which found that a few months after a person recovered from coronavirus, he has an increased level of antibodies. which may not work properly. As confirmation — in 177 medical workers who had the disease before the advent of vaccines, persistent antibodies that could cause chronic inflammation, damage to joints, skin, and the nervous system were detected for six months. Autoantibodies are antibodies that can interact with autoantigens, that is, with antigens own organism. They can form spontaneously or as a result of previous infections. They may be early harbingers of a full-blown autoimmune disease, and it was previously known that even mild COVID-19 can lead to damage to various organs. These include, inter alia, decreased lung volume, increased airway resistance, heart problems, decreased kidney function and an increased risk of venous thrombosis in the lower extremities. 
The virologist called the conditions for the end of the pandemic in 2022. Worldwide, according to the latest WHO data, there are about 300 million people infected with coronavirus, 5.4 million of them could not be saved. The most difficult situation is in the USA, India, Brazil and Great Britain. Russia ranks fifth on this list.
