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- Title
Vaccines Lowered Risk of Long COVID in US Veterans, but Not Completely.
- Authors
Anderer, Samantha
- Abstract
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that while the incidence of long COVID decreased over the course of the pandemic, the risk remained even among vaccinated individuals. The study examined the health records of over 400,000 US veterans infected with SARS-CoV-2 and analyzed the impact of different variants and the COVID-19 vaccine on the rates of long COVID. The researchers found that the rates of long COVID dropped slightly with each variant among the unvaccinated and even more so among the vaccinated. The study attributed about 70% of the decrease in long COVID cases to vaccines and 30% to the different variants. However, the researchers noted that the large number of ongoing infections and poor vaccination uptake may still result in a significant number of individuals with long COVID.
- Subjects
POST-acute COVID-19 syndrome; COVID-19 pandemic; SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant; MEDICAL records; RESEARCH personnel
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2024, Vol 332, Issue 10, p781
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2024.15518