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I didn't see it in this article but I wonder if they took into account vaccinated people who had breakthrough infections? Or vaccinated people who were exposed but didn't get sick (although I don't know how you find those people). Does the vaccine and your primed immune system negate the effects of "long COVID"?

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There was a study out of Israel[1] and another out of the UK[2] that both showed some effectiveness against long COVID for those who are vaccinated. (Reddit links provided because those often have useful summaries of the studies.)

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/sd32t3/association... [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/sdugl1/selfreporte...

According to Figure 1, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3#Sec2

  First COVID-19-positive
  test (T,) between 1 March 2020
  and 15 January 2021
  n = 162.690

VA vaccination began in late December 2020, hence some of the veterans may have received at least one injection, but would not have been considered vaccinated until 14 days after their second injection, https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/82728/va-begin-covid-19-vaccina...

That's kind of meaningless because we don't actually know the vaccination status of those in the study.

Hmm, you're right. I mistakenly thought the study ended on 15 Jan 2021, but that's when it started.

By July 2021, about 50% of veterans had been vaccinated, so it's possible a sizable percentage of these studied veterans were in fact vaccinated (and there are known issues with cardiovascular side effects of vaccines), https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/26/va-man...

After reading this article this was my question as well, it seems like a very relevant point considering a majority of the population (in my country at least) is vaccinated twice, and getting up on their booster too now.

I wonder as well. I'm baffled the article made no mention of vaccination status.

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