Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows vaccines reduce long Covid risk. Vaccinated individuals had lower rates, but vaccines don't eliminate all risk. Ongoing vaccination efforts are crucial.
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A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates that vaccines play a significant role in reducing the risk of developing long Covid. Researchers analyzed data from individuals infected during the first two years of the pandemic and found that vaccinated individuals had a lower rate of long Covid compared to unvaccinated individuals. While vaccines help prevent severe illness during the infection period, they do not eliminate all risk of long Covid. The study, conducted within the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, revealed that vaccination was associated with a decrease in the percentage of Covid patients experiencing long Covid one year after infection. However, the effectiveness of vaccines diminishes over time, emphasizing the importance of ongoing vaccination efforts to control the spread of the virus and reduce the burden of long Covid. The study also highlighted variations in long Covid rates among different population groups and over different phases of the pandemic, underscoring the need for continued monitoring and research in this area.
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9 commentsI recall the incredible relief I felt after getting my first vaccine shot.
And I actually feel sorry for the vaccine refuseniks who never got that sense of relief.
The mass hysteria churned up by the anti-vax movement, and the amount of suffering it caused, is going to keep historians busy for a long time.
At nearly 70 years old I have had a life full of experience that told me something was serverely wrong with the roll out of the jab.
The experimental drug, which is not a vaccine, meerly reduces the symptoms of so called covid. Stop calling it a vaccine!
I have had all my childhood vaccines and have been protected from the entire range of diseases.
I have also been a methadone dispenser, and drug worker working in detox wards in the national health service for 15 years and had my Hep "B" vaccine to protect me from needle stick injury.
Now! the Hep "b" vaccines work like this: You have an injection once a month for three months. during this period you have blood tests to check the development of anti-bodies.
After the three month period I had all the Anti-bodies needed to protect me from Hep "B".
Now that is a proper vaccine!
whereas you do not develop anti-bodies after you have the jab, you have to have an annual top up to protect you from the symptoms of flu.
The COVID JAB IS NOT A VACCINE!!!!
People seem to have forgotten that life is about making informed choices and being autonomous.
We are not conspiracy therorists, refuseniks or anti-vaxers. We are ordinary people who made a choice not to have a jab.
> The researchers analyzed the health records to estimate the percentage of Covid patients who had long Covid one year after being infected. The lowest rate of long Covid in the study, 3.5 percent, was among vaccinated people who were infected during the latest period in the study, between mid-December 2021 and January 2022.
> That compares with a rate of 7.8 percent for unvaccinated patients in the study who were infected during the same period.
> “We found that much of the decline is attributable to vaccination,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the chief of research and development at the V.A. St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.
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> Among vaccinated people who had been infected, the rates of long Covid were markedly lower. Differences in variants and other aspects of the Delta and Omicron periods played a role, the authors said, but they attributed about 72 percent of the decrease to vaccines.
Attributed. Not proved. Attributed.
Then I learned that the vaccine wasn't a traditional one, and that it reprograms the cells to express the markers for the immune system to respond to. If the dose happens to hit a vein, and thus ends up reprogramming heart tissue, the consequences can be horrible disability ,or a quick death, even in a previously fit and healthy person.
No more Covid boosters or anything MRNA based for me. I've barely made it through this.
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