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by mewpmewp2 1691 days ago
There's been different studies for symptoms like these that either have halved the chances of getting long covid or no change at all.

So I think vaccines definitely don't fully protect against this, but they might give better odds. It's unclear by how much, though.
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pflanze 1691 days ago
I've found this article/report showing it halves the chances (note that it halves the chances of long COVID amongst those infected, which means, since the vaccine also lowers the risk of getting infected, getting the vaccine will lower the total chances around a factor of maybe 4-10 (depending on which vaccine and strain of virus) compared to unvaccinated):

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58410354 (the study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...)

Do you have any link to other studies (esp. those that showed there was no change)?

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mewpmewp2 1691 days ago
This one shows some odd results:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265508v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/10/26/202...

From this I interpreted that Long COVID feature (any) didn't have significant outcome difference. And that some symptoms oddly happen more within vaccinated.

Hazard ratios for the outcome within 6 months of infection with SARS-CoV-2 between individuals vaccinated vs. unvaccinated against COVID-19. HR lower than 1 indicate outcomes less common among vaccinated individuals. Horizontal bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Each outcome is a composite endpoint with death as a component to address competing risks. The contribution of the outcome of interest to the overall incidence of the composite endpoint is encoded by the colour.

There may be bias in this study of course, maybe unvaccinated and vaccinated behave very differently and the behaviour could be a cause.

Vaccinated may be more anxious folk and therefore end up with more anxiety after covid as well.

I'm missing some other study that I think found around 0-20% reduction for different long term issues. Can't find it right now.

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dham 1691 days ago
> Vaccinated may be more anxious folk and therefore end up with more anxiety after covid as well

I think there is a big mental thing at play with Covid for sure. Me and my buddy got Covid at the same time (before vaccination). I wasn't worried at all to be honest, because I don't let the media persuade me about things. For example: Letting my kids go out and play by themselves.

I basically just watched movies, checked my oxygen levels every now and then and called it a day. I felt like shit though. His situation was different. We have both the same build. He constantly kept going to urgent care freaking out that he couldn't breath even though his oxygen was fine. I think he was having panic attacks. He ended up getting through it but it might have a lasting or at least some impact to his mental his.

You're right though seeing young skinny, healthy, people at my work getting boosters just makes me cringe. I think to myself that there is some kind of mental disorder going on.

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