The only sure way to avoid long COVID is not to catch the virus in the first place, but there is now a growing body of research that being fully vaccinated seems to substantially cut the risk of developing persistent symptoms that characterize long COVID.
“It may not eradicate the symptoms of long COVID, but the protective effect seems to be very strong,” says epidemiology professorEdelstein’s study was one of those included in a
This inconsistency makes it hard to pull together a single estimate for how much vaccines limit long COVID. Participants who had two or three doses of the vaccines were about 50% to 80% less likely to report seven of the 10 most common symptoms, which include shortness of breath, headache, weakness and muscle pain.
However, the evidence isn’t entirely conclusive. Some studies have not found as big a reduction. For example, the preliminary findings of aof electronic health records of U.S. veterans analyzed the medical problems affecting different organ systems at six months following coronavirus infection.
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