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> Recent research from the U.K. suggests that vaccinated people are about 50% less likely to develop long COVID than those who are unvaccinated.

To me that doesn't sound like that great of a risk reduction.



Have you factored in the reduced chance of symptomatic disease? That comes before long COVID.

With (two months after) vs without = ~0.2 vs 0.05×0.5×0.2 = ~20% vs ~0.5%

(Explanation: chance of symptomatic disease 2 months after reported as 5% vs "control"; chance of long COVID after symptomatic infection reported as 2.3% as bare minimum, 13% to other research and 40% to a large interpretation.)

Edit: to the three British studies of 2.3%, 13% and 40%, after this thread I can add 25% from a post from user tfehring, including link to article: «something like a quarter of people with symptomatic COVID seem to have some kind of cognitive symptom (mainly “brain fog” and/or short-term memory loss) 8 months later». I will update the tentative value for the chance of long COVID, but the ratio, half of one twentieth, does not change.


That's on top of the reduced risk of catching it in the first place. Estimates of that vary widely, let's use 1/6. So 1/12 risk of long COVID.




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