EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.
Lots of the sub comments addressed this well, but I see no reason this couldn’t be the case with Crohn’s as well—maybe even more so than Lupus given the gut brain axis and microbiome effects. Likely there are a lot of different undiscovered pathways and molecular variants involved.
Random side comment (and this is completely anecdotal) but I’ve diagnosed more new onset Crohn’s and UC since COVID than I had in my entire career previous to COVID. It makes me think there may be a component of COVID that’s similar enough to GI mucosa to cause autoimmune effects afterwards. Just need to wait to see the studies and incidence down the line.