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Re:New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus by blueblisters on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:00AM (#23924557)
False positives as in it starts attacking healthy/friendly cells? That seems like a pretty big downside.
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Re:New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus by beagle3 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:58AM (#23925170)
It is a huge problem. It’s called “autoimmune disease”, and global prevalence is on the rise.

AFAIK the hypothesis is that is a result of modern life being “too clean”, so not enough “unfriendly” variety to train on.

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Re:New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus by layoutIfNeeded on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:15AM (#23925249)
Happens 1 in 100k people every year. It's called Guillain-Barré syndrome [1]. After an infection your immune system gets confused and starts attacking your peripheral nerves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain–Barré_syndrome

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Re:New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus by shawnz on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:40AM (#23926687)
That's just one of many possible autoimmune diseases.
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Re:New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus by layoutIfNeeded on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:46AM (#23927300)
Yes, of course there are tons of autoimmune diseases (from mild allergies, to lupus, multiple sclerosis, and sympathetic ophthalmia), but Guillain-Barré syndrome is an autoimmune disease that's known to occur after otherwise banal infections or even vaccine shots. That's why I considered it more relevant to the OP than other autoimmune diseases.
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