A recent published study showed the long-term chronic effects of COVID-19 can be significant. Studies have shown that six months after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the risk of developing an autoimmune disease is two to three times that of an uninfected person. That was true for 13 different autoimmune diseases. What is the mechanistic link behind this?

There are a number of factors. First of all, having an infectious illness ramps up the immune system and creates a number of states of imbalance. And in the recovery there can be some exhaustion, leaving a person vulnerable to acquiring another organism. There may also be dual exposure, so along with the Covid-19 one also encounters viruses causing autoimmune disorders and starts a co-infection. There are many individuals visited personally as an act of biowarfare, and may be sprayed with more than one virus, specifically to cause this kind of sequence, an initial bout with Covid, but a longer-lived and potentially, lifetime struggle with an autoimmune disorder that results from chronic viral presence.