MedPage Today October 4, 2024
— We may never have answers to some questions, expert says
Vaccines are now a key tool in preventing acute, severe COVID-19. But less is known about their effect on long COVID. Does vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 protect against long COVID? And what effect, if any, does vaccination have on pre-existing long COVID?
Preventing Long COVID
Because COVID-19 vaccines are effective in both preventing the disease and lessening its severity, the CDC recommends vaccination to prevent long COVID.
“If you don’t get COVID, you don’t get long COVID,” Lisa Sanders, MD, medical director of the Yale New Haven Long COVID Consultation Clinic in Connecticut, told MedPage Today.
“Second, if you do get COVID after you’ve been vaccinated, it reduces your chance...
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