Study: Risk for long COVID has declined, remains ‘substantial’

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Key takeaways:

• The risk for long COVID has declined with each new variant but remains “substantial,” according to researchers.
• Vaccination lowers a patient’s risk for long COVID, the researchers found.

 

July 17, 2024

 

The risk for developing long COVID declined over the course of the pandemic but has remained significant, researchers reported.

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Results showed that 10.4% of COVID-19 unvaccinated veterans experienced long COVID during the pre-delta era, 9.5% experienced long COVID during the delta variant era and 7.7% developed long COVID during the omicron era, according to the researchers.

 

Among vaccinated veterans, 5.3% developed long COVID during the delta era and 3.5% developed long COVID during the omicron era.

The researchers found that roughly 70% of the decline in long COVID risk was attributed to vaccinations and roughly 30% to changes in the virus from variant to variant.

 

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https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20240717/qa-risk-for-long-covid-has-declined-remains-substantial

 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2403211

 

Risk of long COVID declined over course of pandemic

Drop attributed mostly to vaccination but remaining risk still significant

 

The risk of developing long COVID has decreased significantly over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of data led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

 

Researchers attributed about 70% of the risk reduction to vaccination against COVID-19 and 30% to changes over time, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s evolving characteristics and improved detection and management of COVID-19.

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To do this, Al-Aly and his team analyzed millions of de-identified medical records in a database maintained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation’s largest integrated health-care system. The study included 441,583 veterans with SARS-CoV-2 infections and more than 4.7 million uninfected veterans, from March 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2022.

 

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https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/risk-of-long-covid-declined-over-course-of-pandemic/

 

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About 7 percent of U.S. adults have had long covid, report says

Just 6 percent of the vaccinated and boosted respondents reported long covid symptoms vs. 8 percent of those who weren’t vaccinated

 

July 15, 2024

 

About 7 percent of U.S. adults — nearly 18 million people — had suffered from long covid as of early last year, according to a recent report in JAMA Data Brief.

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The household survey of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population used a nationally representative sample of about 17,000 adults age 18 and older. Of those, 8,275 adults reported having had covid-19, with some 1,200 indicating that they suffered from long covid symptoms.

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The MEPS survey also asked participants about their covid-19 vaccination and booster shot history. Just 6 percent of the vaccinated and boosted respondents reported long covid symptoms vs. 8 percent of those who weren’t vaccinated. The findings suggest “booster shots may enhance protection against long covid, possibly because booster shots reduce the risk of severe covid-19,” the researchers wrote.

 

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Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/07/15/long-covid-united-states-adults/