There is now a growing body of research that's offering at least some reassurance for those who do end up getting COVID — being fully vaccinated seems to substantially cut the risk of later developing the persistent symptoms that characterize 'long COVID'.
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But even without a clear sense of what's exactly driving long COVID, there's good reason to believe that vaccines would help guard against the condition, saysSupport for LAist comes from 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.