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Could Antibodies Be Causing Long COVID? - The "Abzyme" Story - Dr Gill

in addition to the debilitating symptoms which some patients with long Covid can experience, there is also the existential issue, whereby patients understand how little we truly know about this condition, and thus how well we are able to target the underlying problems.

Perhaps by comparison to other conditions, then it is not surprising that in the world of long Covid they are recurrent steady precious to bring about these changes, and help us understand what may be going on. On the 22nd of July 2025 the university of Virginia release a paper discussing how their scientist had managed to identify rogue antibodies, which they dubbed abzymes, as a potential cause of some long Covid symptoms

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:13 University of Virginia Discovery on Long COVID
01:03 Nature 2024 Study - Antibody Transfer in Mice
01:56 Correlation vs Causation in COVID Research
02:46 COVID-19 Spike Protein & ACE2 Mechanism
03:35 ACE Enzyme Function Explained
04:13 ACE2 Enzyme - The Protective Counterbalance
04:41 How COVID-19 Damages ACE2 Function
05:26 Antibodies Mimicking ACE2 (Abzymes)
06:29 UVA Research - Proving Cause & Effect
07:08 Implications for Blood Pressure & Fatigue
07:40 Plasma Apheresis as Potential Treatment
08:25 Patient Selection & Personalized Treatment
09:02 Conclusion