So-called “long COVID” has become one of the most worrisome and perplexing aspects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But a new, large-scale study out of the United Kingdom indicates there’s a good way to keep long-term COVID-19 symptoms from happening to you: vaccination.
The study, published Wednesday in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, concluded that full vaccination cuts in half the risk of an infected person developing “long-haul COVID.”
“We found that the odds of having symptoms for 28 days or more after post-vaccination infection were approximately halved by having two vaccine doses,” the authors wrote. “This result suggests that the risk of long COVID is reduced in individuals who have received double vaccination, when additionally considering the already documented reduced risk of infection overall.”
Lingering, sometimes debilitating symptoms from COVID-19, even in people who had mild cases of the initial illness, include brain fog, fatigue, muscle weakness, shortness of breath and anxiety. Symptoms can last for months, and medical experts worry that in some cases they might prove to be permanent. Almost half of people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 suffer from some form of long COVID.
Separate from “long-haul” symptoms, COVID-19 can cause permanent damage to the lungs, heart, kidneys and other organs.
This new self-reporting-based study, titled “Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app,” determined that the vaccinated participants most likely to have meaningful symptomatic infections were elderly, “highlighting the need for ongoing caution in this clinically vulnerable group.”
COVID-19 cases among the vaccinated have proven more common than initially believed, though they remain rare compared to the unvaccinated. The vaccines are designed to prevent severe illness and death.
More than 4 million people have died worldwide from COVID-19.
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