I don’t know but..... when you shorted 5v to ground you may have put +5v into the oxygens sensor’s reference ground signal pin. Could you have buggered the oxygen sensor?
I don’t know what symptoms a bad oxygen sensor would give on your car?
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B72 is the oxygen sensor