Is There a Difference Between Vaccination and Long Coved?

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Nina turner: I've been wanting to talk about long coved and vacinations for quite some time. And i knew coming into this conversation that we weren't going to get an answer. But al we do have is a lot of compelling, interesting data and a lot of questions. For certain, for people who are vaccinated, you can still get long coved. You know, it is important to keep testing to make sure that you know if you have become infected.

Vaccines significantly reduce the risk of developing COVID-19, but scientists are now asking what effect the vaccines might have on long COVID. Long COVID is a somewhat ill-defined, but common, syndrome that can arise from even mild cases of COVID19 - with symptoms ranging from chronic fatigue to breathing difficulties and even neurological deficiency. But little is known about what triggers long COVID, or how to prevent it. As public health experts consider protection measures, the role of vaccines in protecting against long COVID is poorly understood, and although numerous studies are seeking answers, they are turning up conflicting results.

In this episode of Coronapod we pick through a selection of these studies, discuss the prevailing hypotheses on the causes of long COVID and ask how all of this might impact the pandemic.

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