How Do You Know if You Have Long Coved?

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There are a lot of studies that are going on to try to get a handle on what is actually happening in the real world. And there's just so many different ways you can look at this. One study was looking at an ap that people have on their phones to record their symptoms. That one found that if you had been vaccinated, that there was a 50 % less chance that you would develop these long lasting symptoms from your covid infection. So it's hard to put a number on it. I guess at this point, it seems like the messages that we can take so far really are just that cases of long covet are still very possible if you've been vaccinated and if you

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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