There is fresh evidence that vaccination may reduce the chances of developing long COVID. However, one scientist says, long COVID will probably have a more severe impact on our economy than acute COVID.
Dr. Jonathan Li, an infectious disease physician at Harvard Medical School, studied the man's extraordinary case. The team found his 154-day COVID infection had mutated at an alarming rate.
As these theories and others are tested, there is fresh evidence that vaccination may reduce the chances of developing long COVID. Justyna Fert-Bober and Dr. Susan Cheng were among researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who found that some people who have had COVID-19, including cases without symptoms, have a variety of these elevated "autoantibodies" up to six months after recovering. Some are the same ones found in people with autoimmune diseases.
Some of these symptoms may first appear during an initial infection but linger or recur a month or more later. Or new ones may develop, lasting for weeks, months or over a year. Hogan, the New York nurse, also wasn’t hospitalized with COVID-19 but has been debilitated since her diagnosis. Her husband, a disabled veteran, and children ages 9, 13 and 15 fell ill soon after and were sick with fever, stomach pains and weakness for about a month. Then all seemed to get a little better until new symptoms appeared.
Study participant Nancy Rose, 67, of Port Jefferson, New York, said many of her symptoms waned after she got vaccinated, though she still has bouts of fatigue and memory loss.
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