{"id":8568,"date":"2023-12-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2023-12-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T11:00:00","slug":"vaccinated-people-4-times-less-likely-to-get-long-covid-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=8568","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinated People 4 Times Less Likely to Get Long COVID, Says Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Successive doses of COVID vaccine can further reduce the risk, experts say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shishira Sreenivas<\/a>, November 24, 2023, The Messenger<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine<\/a> before your first bout of infection can significantly cut the risk of developing long COVID<\/a>, according to a new study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers from Sweden, who published findings Wednesday on The BMJ<\/a>, analyzed data from over half a million Swedes aged 18 and over, who registered their first COVID infection between December 2020 and February 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unvaccinated individuals, the study found, were almost four times more likely to be diagnosed with long covid than those who were vaccinated before their first COVID infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long covid<\/a>, also known as post-COVID conditions, is a condition in which some people infected with COVID-19 experience a variety of long-term symptoms that can last weeks, months or years after the infection resolves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symptoms are usually hard to explain and manage. People with long COVID have reported a wide range of symptoms, such as fatigue, brain fog, fever, shortness of breath, fast-beating heart, cough, chest pain, sleep problems, joint pain, difficulty thinking clearly and depression or anxiety among other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this large-scale observational study, the researchers analyzed the follow-up time period from the timestamp of their first COVID infection until they reported a diagnosis of long COVID, vaccination, reinfection or death \u2014 whichever came first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 299,692 vaccinated individuals from the study, around 1,201 were diagnosed with long COVID during the follow-up period, compared with 4,118 long COVID cases among the 290,003 unvaccinated participants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Successive doses of COVID vaccine can further reduce the risk, experts say Shishira Sreenivas, November 24, 2023, The Messenger Getting at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine before your first bout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[920,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-vaccine","category-vaccine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}