Vaccines offer little protection against long Covid, study finds

[SunSeeker]

The Covid vaccines, while holding up strong against hospitalization and death, offer little protection against long Covid, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature Medicine. 

The findings are disappointing, if not surprising, to researchers who were once hopeful that vaccination could significantly reduce the risk of long Covid. 

Compared to an unvaccinated individual, the risk of long Covid in a fully vaccinated individual was cut by only about 15 percent, the study found.

“The vaccines are miraculous at doing what they were designed to do” — that is, prevent hospitalization and death, said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis and the lead author of the study. But they “offer very modest protection against long Covid,” he said.   

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccines-offer-little-protection-long-covid-study-finds-rcna30467

[Sanity Claws]

1. First I've heard that

It makes taking precautions like masking more important.

[SunSeeker]

8. I'm still masking when indoors, like when grocery shopping.

I have a fully vaccinated friend who got covid a month ago and he still can't taste anything. He loves coffee, but now coffee tastes like water to him. He was only sick for a few days, but he lost the sense of taste. Very freaky.

[mucifer]

2. well that sucks.

[shenmue]

3. Nature Medicinezero credibilty

✋

[Effete Snob]

6. What is the basis for that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Medicine

“the highest-cited research journal in preclinical medicine“

[shenmue]

7. Nature?

What is not natural?

Highest cited?

What is preclinical? Still in school?

[Effete Snob]

11. Okay

Thank you for establishing that your initial comment was not made on the basis of any facts.

You may find a definition of pre-clinical medicine here:

https://www.nature.com/subjects/pre-clinical-studies

[USALiberal]

9. Do more research

[Phoenix61]

4. Interesting study but one that skews much older than the

general population. “Veterans who use VA health care—VA patients—are typically older than other veterans. More than half—52 percent—are over age 65, compared with 39 percent of veterans who are not VA patients. VA patients are also more likely than other veterans to have been deployed.”
Other studies have shown vaccination status plays a role.
“Generally, though, Deeks says vaccinated people seem to have a 50% lower average risk of developing long COVID than unvaccinated people. This is in the range of what multiple studies in the U.K., Israel and the U.S. have found.”https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/24/1088270403/long-covid-vaccines

[progree]

5. Vaccination and relative cases, hospitalizations, and death risk in Minnesota

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/05/06/covid19-in-mn-rising-caseloads-may-be-leveling-hospital-needs-stable

[babylonsister]

10. Beloved Principal Who Fought DeSantis Over In-Person Learning Dies of Long COVID

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-principal-jimbo-jackson-who-fought-gov-ron-desantis-over-in-person-learning-dies-of-long-covid?ref=home

Beloved Principal Who Fought DeSantis Over In-Person Learning Dies of Long COVID
CRUEL WORLD
When the Florida governor sparked outrage by calling students and teachers back to schools in July 2020, Jimbo Jackson pushed back. He died after a two-year long-COVID battle.

[SunSeeker]

12. OMG that is so sad! Fuck DeathSantis!