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Whether long COVID is an autoimmune disease has been one of the great questions facing the field.

Finally, we have an answer. It is, at least, in part. A recent study provided dramatic evidence that autoimmune processes are significantly affecting many long COVID patients - and it bolstered autoimmune work in ME/CFS as well.

There's still a lot of work to do - tracking down which autoantibodies are doing the damage is not going to be easy in these complex disorders, but it is doable, and it is one place this field will likely concentrate on after this study.

The goal, as always, will be to precisely match LC and ME/CFS patients to the appropriate autoimmune treatment.

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https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06/02/autoimmune-long-covid-subset/

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Major Study Validates a Long COVID Autoimmune Subset - Health Rising A major study determines that autoimmunity is causing major symptoms in long COVID ultimately laying the groundwork for precision-guided treatments

Solving the ME/CFS and Long COVID Jigsaw Puzzle: PrecisionLife’s Steven Gardner Talks

PrecisionLife believes they can break the code on ME/CFS and long COVID and they're back with new, much larger ME/CFS study.

Instead of 14 genes they found over 2,000! In a talk with CEO and founder Steve Gardner, he explained that ME/CFS is highly complex but solveable, reported that PrecisionLife has identified over 40 drugs that they think may help, noted that ME/CFS and long COVID are similar but different, and pointed to a fascinating process whereby PrecisionLife is identifying "resilience genes" that a) protect people from coming down with ME/CFS and b) could help people recover from it. Check it out

Solving the ME/CFS and Long COVID Jigsaw Puzzle: PrecisionLife's Steven Gardner Talks - Health Rising Geoff’s Narration The GIST “It’s (ME/CFS) a jigsaw puzzle, right? And we have a couple of the pieces that I think are going to be really important to framing out the rest of the picture.” Steve Gardner, CEO and co-founder of PrecisionLife I spilled the beans early in my talk […]