{"id":9695,"date":"2024-07-17T21:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:25:41","slug":"vaccines-significantly-reduce-the-risk-of-long-covid-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9695","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the first two years of the pandemic, the rate of long Covid was starkly lower among people who were vaccinated, researchers reported.<\/p>\n

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A large new study<\/a> provides some of the strongest evidence yet that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long Covid.<\/p>\n

Scientists looked at people in the United States infected during the first two years of the pandemic and found that the percentage of vaccinated people who developed long Covid was much lower than the percentage of unvaccinated people who did. <\/p>\n

Medical experts have previously said that vaccines can lower the risk of long Covid<\/a>, largely because they help prevent severe illness during the infection period and people with severe infections are more likely to have long-term symptoms.<\/p>\n

But many individuals with mild infections also develop long Covid, and the study, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that vaccination did not eliminate all risk of developing the condition, which continues to affect millions in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere was a residual risk of long Covid among vaccinated persons,\u201d Dr. Clifford Rosen, a senior scientist at the MaineHealth Institute for Research, who was not involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying editorial<\/a>. Because of that, Dr. Rosen added, new cases of long Covid \u201cmay continue unabated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study evaluated medical records of millions of patients in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system. It involved nearly 450,000 people who had Covid between March 1, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2022, and about 4.7 million people who were not infected during that time.<\/p>\n

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In the first two years of the pandemic, the rate of long Covid was starkly lower among people who were vaccinated, researchers reported.A large new study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long Covid.Scientists looked at people in the United States infected during the first two years of the pandemic and found that the percentage of vaccinated people who developed long Covid was much lower than the percentage of unvaccinated people who did. Medical experts have previously said that vaccines can lower the risk of long Covid, largely because they help prevent severe illness during the infection period and people with severe infections are more likely to have long-term symptoms.But many individuals with mild infections also develop long Covid, and the study, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that vaccination did not eliminate all risk of developing the condition, which continues to affect millions in the United States.\u201cThere was a residual risk of long Covid among vaccinated persons,\u201d Dr. Clifford Rosen, a senior scientist at the MaineHealth Institute for Research, who was not involved in the study, wrote in an accompanying editorial. Because of that, Dr. Rosen added, new cases of long Covid \u201cmay continue unabated.\u201dThe study evaluated medical records of millions of patients in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system. It involved nearly 450,000 people who had Covid between March 1, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2022, and about 4.7 million people who were not infected during that time.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9697,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9698,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}