A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who were vaccinated.
  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Thank you for sharing this article. As someone who has had long COVID since before vaccines were available, I wish this was more common knowledge.

    I’m lucky enough to be a lot better off than I was and close to symptom-free much of the time. But it was baaaad for well over two years for me.

    Despite overwhelming evidence of the wide-ranging risks of COVID-19, a great deal of messaging suggests that it is no longer a threat to the public. Although there is no empirical evidence to back this up, this misinformation has permeated the public narrative.

    The data, however, tells a different story.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Crazy thing is that I also read an article today about how long COVID rates are going way down among the vaccinated. So sorry you had to go through that

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, good to finally see how much protection vaccines provide against Long COVID, that stat has been eluding me for a long time.