Early Estimates of Updated 2023–2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) ...
www.cdc.gov
This report describes vaccine effectiveness for the updated COVID-19 vaccine in preventing symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.

This is unexpectadly high, and good news for anyone who got the latest vaccine.

https://nitter.poast.org/EricTopol/status/1753145017810723327#m https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1753145017810723327#m

I'm on the west coast and the latest covid wave just started hitting my town, so I hope I can continue to avoid it.

My friend in a long term care facility a few towns over got hit a couple weeks ago and three people died. They got the last vaccine several weeks ago, and then got "minor cold symptoms" when covid hit their facility, but never tested positive. Not many residents facility got the last vaccine because of the fucking privatization bullshit.

This country is Satan.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, it's hard to say. Generally all the evidence points to the worse symptoms you have, the more risk there is of long covid. But with the way the virus can evade or shut down the immune response, who knows?

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Generally all the evidence points to the worse symptoms you have, the more risk there is of long covid.

      Ah, see that's not what I've been hearing.

      Long COVID most often occurs in people who had severe COVID-19 illness, but it is not restricted to those who were critically ill or hospitalized. People with mild disease and even those who did not develop symptoms can also be affected. In fact, most people with long COVID had mild acute COVID. Adults and children can both be affected, though Long COVID appears to be more common in adults. Researchers do not yet know how common the condition is, but studies have estimated that it occurs in 5% to 30% of people with COVID-19.

      https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/long-covid-post-covid-conditions-pcc

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        That doesn't contradict the claim that more severe COVID puts you at higher risk. Most people with long COVID had mild symptoms because many more people had mild symptoms (and survived) than had severe symptoms. It's the same reason that "most people who get COVID have had at least one vaccine" isn't evidence that getting the vaccine makes you more likely to get COVID.