Can I Get 'Long COVID' If I'm Infected After Vaccination?
AP News, Aug. 5, 2021.
Can I get ‘long COVID’ if I’m infected after vaccination? It’s unclear, but researchers are studying the chances of long-term symptoms developing in anyone who might get infected after vaccination.
The COVID-19 vaccines in use around the world are effective at preventing severe illness and death from the coronavirus, but some people do get infected after the shots. With such “breakthrough” cases, health experts say the vaccines should help lessen the severity of any illness people experience.
But researchers are also looking at whether those breakthrough cases could lead to long COVID-19, which is when people experience persistent, returning or new symptoms a month or more after an infection. The condition can develop after severe initial infections or even in those who initially had mild or no symptoms.
Some estimates indicate about 30% of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients develop long-term symptoms, including shortness of breath, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, insomnia and brain fog. Similar symptoms can develop after other viral infections, too.. Researchers don’t know why symptoms linger, but believe some symptoms reflect lung scarring or damage to other organs from severe initial infections. Another theory suggests that the virus may linger in the body and trigger an immune response that leads to the symptoms...
https://apnews.com/article/science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-dbef66eba5245f74e28e29a8915fd93f
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Healthcare workers ended up with long haul in small study.
Wouldn't it be nice if our CDC would report on this?
On Edit: sorry no link. I have a screenshot of Dr. Ding's tweet stating the above but have no clue how to post. Perhaps someone with a twitter account can search this up as I don't use social media.
Who has been sounding alarms about this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
hassle to consider, sheesh! But not now, it's quittin' time.
And I've been searching...
Ty for raising this impirtant question.
I honestly believe this is an aspect many folks don't consider because the CDC isn't reporting on this
One DU member whose name escapes me replied to me, stating that her (or his) job is reporting all this info, in many layers, to CDC. CDC is just not reporting the info to us.
