Open Forum Infect Dis . Risk of Long COVID in People Infected With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 After 2 Doses of a Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine: Community-Based, Matched Cohort Study

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Open Forum Infect Dis


. 2022 Sep 12;9(9):ofac464.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac464. eCollection 2022 Sep.
Risk of Long COVID in People Infected With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 After 2 Doses of a Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine: Community-Based, Matched Cohort Study


Daniel Ayoubkhani ^{1 2} , Matthew L Bosworth ¹ , Sasha King ³ , Koen B Pouwels ^{4 5} , Myer Glickman ¹ , Vahé Nafilyan ^{1 6} , Francesco Zaccardi ² , Kamlesh Khunti ² , Nisreen A Alwan ^{7 8 9} , A Sarah Walker ^{4 10}



Affiliations

• PMID: 36168555
• PMCID: PMC9494414
• DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac464

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 3090 breakthrough severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections and 14.6% of unvaccinated controls (adjusted odds ratio, 0.59 [95% confidence interval, .50-.69]), emphasizing the need for public health initiatives to increase population-level vaccine uptake.

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; long COVID; post-COVID condition; vaccination.