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The title here ("100% of Long Covid patients have GPCR-autoantibodies") is editorialized, making this sound interesting. The actual title is "Possible Impact of functional active GPCR-autoantibodies on retinal microcirculation in Long-COVID."

The study looked at 76 long covid patients with no control group, so you can't make a general conclusion from it. This post is a waste of time unless you're interested in obscure opthamological research.

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Thanks - I've changed it to the original title now (or rather, a truncated version to fit HN's 80 char limit).

Submitters: please follow the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

I couldn't tell from the abstract (is there a link I missed), but I suspect that the test for GPCR-autoantibodies has a baseline (e.g. to test positive you must be 2-sd above the mean). From that if all 76 test positive you can know without a control group that that is otherwise very unlikely and a strong signal of correlation.

yea, these people have had covid.

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