Could Covid lead to a lifetime of autoimmune disease?

This is one of the reasons that I'm hyper protective of my kids right now. I have never really fully understood the shoulder shrugging around kids exposure to COVID (having them in school etc.) simply because their reactions are so less severe.

We've never known what the full impact of getting COVID over the span of a lifetime though, and for kids that have it young we could be seeing lifetimes of health related issues that could have potentially been avoided.

Ring could test for the presence of antibodies directed against any of 2,688 human proteins. In some of his own covid patients he found antibodies targeting 30 other important signaling agents besides interferon, some of which play an essential role in directing where other immune cells needed to attack. Antibodies which: can somehow be created by covid itself , have the potential to last a lifetime.

..critical covid patients could be saved with widely available existing drugs—types of synthetic interferon that could evade the autoantibodies and kick the immune system into gear early enough to avoid a cytokine storm.

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I'll get down voted into oblivion for this, but at this point anyone's covid concerns are about as worrysome as the sun going red giant. Covid is endemic now. It's going to be. To endlessly ponder it is not more useful than pondering the impact of any of the other several hundreds endemic virii thought to cause autoimmune diseases (Epstein Barr virus, etc) It's a topic of academic interest, not something you can do anything about besides getting vaccinated.