Vaccination clearly provides needed protection, the study says, but “reliance on it as a sole mitigation strategy may not most optimally reduce the risk of the long-term health consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection.”The study found that people who had received a full round of COVID vaccination were less likely than the unvaccinated to develop long COVID six months after their infection, but only by a small margin, and only related to certain symptoms.
Using data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the study looked at nearly 34,000 veterans who contracted COVID and found that those who were fully vaccinated when they caught the virus were 15 per cent less likely to experience long COVID symptoms. There were little to no differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated people when it came to long-term kidney failure, neurological problems, fatigue, mental health, and gastrointestinal issues, among several other conditions.
There didn’t appear to be any significant difference between people who had received the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.Article content