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How do you advise patients who had autoimmune diseases "triggered" by COVID infections on getting COVID vaccination?

E.g., inflammatory polyarthritis or inflammatory myopathy with onset within 2 weeks of documented COVID infection
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Rheumatology · Northwestern Medical Group
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To date, it is unclear whether there is a causal link between COVID-19 and incident autoimmune disease at a rate higher than the incidence of autoimmune diseases in the general population, although, there are several case reports and case series describing new cases of autoimmune disease that began ...

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