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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Some people with life-threatening cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, make auto-antibodies (red) that attack key immunity proteins. People with mild or no symptoms (left) do not make these antibodies.

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P. Bastard et al./Science 2020

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