Risk of Long Covid in people infected with SARS-CoV-2 after two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine: community-based, matched cohort study

Ayoubkhani D., Bosworth ML., King S., Pouwels KB., Glickman M., Nafilyan V., Zaccardi F., Khunti K., Alwan NA., Walker AS.

Abstract We investigated Long Covid incidence by vaccination status in a random sample of UK adults from April 2020 to November 2021. Persistent symptoms were reported by 9.5% of 3,090 breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections and 14.6% of unvaccinated controls (adjusted odds ratio 0.59, 95% CI: 0.50-0.69), emphasising the need for public health initiatives to increase population-level vaccine uptake.

DOI

10.1093/ofid/ofac464

Type

Journal article

Journal

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

12/09/2022

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