A new large study shows that vaccination cuts the risk of long-covid by about 15%, which is less than some expected. The study included more than 13 million people.
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lowers the risk of long COVID after infection by only about 15%, according to a study of more than 13 million people1 . That’s the largest cohort that has yet been used to examine how much vaccines protect against the condition, but it is unlikely to end the uncertainty.
Long COVID — illness that persists for weeks or months after infection with SARS-CoV-2 — has proved difficult to study, not least because the array of symptoms makes it hard to define. Even finding out how common it is has been challenging. Some studies2 ,3 have suggested that it occurs in as many as 30% of people infected with the virus. But a November study4 of about 4.5 million people treated at US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals suggests that the number is 7% overall and lower than that for those who were not hospitalized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01453-0
I didn’t look it up, but this is in the comments of the thread I found this in.
Here’s the actual paper:
Long COVID after breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection | Nature Medicine
There’s zero mention of average age and other demographics in the text. This is buried in the Supplementary data.
Look at Table 1:
cohort is 90% male
The cohort was largely male which makes sense since the bulk of the study was taken from the VA (veterans administration) hospital, which would likely be ex-military and therefore historically mostly males.
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There are no precise figures in this article:
but there are substantiating statistics in the full report:
https://ukhsa.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=64359
