Becker's Healthcare July 18, 2024
Patients vaccinated against COVID-19 were less likely to develop long COVID following infection, regardless of changes in the virus over time, according to a study published July 17 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Using health records from the Department of Veterans Affairs, researchers studied a group of 441,583 veterans who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 2020 and January 2022 and compared their outcomes with 4,748,504 non-infected individuals.
During the pre-delta, delta, and omicron eras of the pandemic, they also looked at changes between vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals one year after initial infection.
Vaccinated individuals had a lower rate of long COVID-19 than unvaccinated.
- Pre-delta:
- Unvaccinated: 10.42 cases per 100 people.
- Vaccinated: (The study...
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