Do vaccinated people get long COVID?
Beyond the nasty and sometimes life-threatening symptoms that COVID can bring, there's another risk: long COVID. It's the collection of prolonged symptoms including brain fog, smell loss and fatigue. And while we know that being vaccinated drastically reduces your risk of a bad bout of COVID itself, a lingering question has been whether it also protects you from long COVID. Well, according to a yet to be peer reviewed study, the answer is yes it does. Also on today's show: * Is there any research work being done to modify the virus to develop a relatively benign but transmissible COVID variant which could be released to "crowd out" the current dangerous variants? * Is there a chance that Omicron is different enough that instead of replacing Delta, you get both if not together then one after another? * And we're after your stories about getting third-doses. Was it easy? Or hard?
An episode of the What's That Rash? podcast, hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, titled "Do vaccinated people get long COVID?" was published on December 7, 2021 and runs 10 minutes.
December 7, 2021 ·10m · What's That Rash?
Summary
Beyond the nasty and sometimes life-threatening symptoms that COVID can bring, there's another risk: long COVID. It's the collection of prolonged symptoms including brain fog, smell loss and fatigue. And while we know that being vaccinated drastically reduces your risk of a bad bout of COVID itself, a lingering question has been whether it also protects you from long COVID. Well, according to a yet to be peer reviewed study, the answer is yes it does. Also on today's show: * Is there any research work being done to modify the virus to develop a relatively benign but transmissible COVID variant which could be released to "crowd out" the current dangerous variants? * Is there a chance that Omicron is different enough that instead of replacing Delta, you get both if not together then one after another? * And we're after your stories about getting third-doses. Was it easy? Or hard?
Episode Description
Beyond the nasty and sometimes life-threatening symptoms that COVID can bring, there's another risk: long COVID.
It's the collection of prolonged symptoms including brain fog, smell loss and fatigue.
And while we know that being vaccinated drastically reduces your risk of a bad bout of COVID itself, a lingering question has been whether it also protects you from long COVID.
Well, according to a yet to be peer reviewed study, the answer is yes it does.
Also on today's show:
* Is there any research work being done to modify the virus to develop a relatively benign but transmissible COVID variant which could be released to "crowd out" the current dangerous variants?
* Is there a chance that Omicron is different enough that instead of replacing Delta, you get both if not together then one after another?
* And we're after your stories about getting third-doses. Was it easy? Or hard?
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