Coronavirus vaccines could cut the risk of long covid by two-fifths

Being vaccinated against the coronavirus can cut the risk of having long covid symptoms 12 weeks after the infection by 41 per cent

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

The risk of long covid may be considerably lower in people who catch the coronavirus after being vaccinated.

Daniel Ayoubkhani at the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) and his colleagues looked at a random sample of people, aged 19 to 69, who tested positive for the coronavirus between April 2020 and November 2021.

The sample included 3090 people who had received a second dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna or Oxford/AstraZeneca …