The intense scientific effort that long COVID sparked has resulted in more than 24,000 scientific publications, making it the most researched health condition in any four years of recorded human history.
Long COVID is a term that describes the constellation of long-term health effects caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These range from persistent respiratory symptoms, such as shortness of breath, to debilitating fatigue or brain fog that limits people’s ability to work, and conditions such as heart failure and diabetes, which are known to last a lifetime.
3.5% chance to get long covid if vaccinated
And just so no one thinks the vaccines are causing it based on your comment alone,
Ah yeah good call
What? It’s larger for unvaccinated? How can this be??? /s
The idiots don’t understand this. I know one that will go apoplectic at a singular case of something bad happening to a vaccinated person (regardless of whether it was due to the vaccine itself, covid, or completely unrelated) and cry about how bad they are. I’ve shown him numbers from the very same article or study he’s trying to cite and he ignored it.
The source you are citing literally says this
“the number is likely much higher due to many undocumented cases. The incidence is estimated at 10–30% of non-hospitalized cases, 50–70% of hospitalized cases2,3 and 10–12% of vaccinated cases4,5”
Please fix your comment
I’m vaccinated plus three boosters, and I’m struggling with it now after COVID last fall. Sucks to be in that lucky 3.5%.
Rarity doesn’t change severity. I’m sorry for your struggle buddy.
I’m lucky that mine isn’t as severe as it could be. I’m not bedbound and I work from home, which I can still do, though on some days I need to lie down for a couple hours midday and work into the evening to make it up.
But I can’t do the things I used to enjoy like hiking, cycling, going to the gym. Even non-active stuff like chess - the brain fog affects how well I can calculate and I’ve lost a ton of rating after six years of steady improvement. Immune system is fucked and I keep getting skin infections. Can’t digest food very well, can’t even chew very well due to inflammation in my jaw. Can’t sleep more than 4-5 hours a night. The nervous system impacts everything.
So basically it still lets me do my job and pay my mortgage but everything I did for fun is out of reach. Not a great quality of life.