A recent study conducted in Israel found that people who have been vaccinated with both the doses of COVID-19 and had been infected with coronavirus are less likely to report fatigue and other health problems seen post-Covid than people who have not been vaccinated. The study showed that vaccinated people were no more likely to have symptoms than people who have never been infected with SARS-CoV-2, reported Nature. The findings of the study showed that individuals who had coronavirus were 54% less likely to report headaches, 64% less likely to report fatigue, and 68% less likely to report muscle pain than were their unvaccinated counterparts.
“Here is another reason to get vaccinated, if you needed one,” co-author Michael Edelstein, an epidemiologist at Bar-Ilan University in Safed, Israel was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, people with incapacitating condition called long Covid continued to experience symptoms like-
- Fatigue
- Shortness of breath
- Even trouble concentrating weeks, months or years after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
While according to some estimates up to 30% of the infected people, including many who were never hospitalised, have persistent symptoms. However, vaccination reduces long COVID’s occurrence by preventing people from getting infected in the first place. By minimising the length of time, the virus has free lead in the body during breakthrough infections as per the theory.
The team between July and November 2021 asked more than 3,000 people about what they were experiencing as the most common symptoms of long Coronavirus. All these individuals had been tested for SARS-CoV-2 between March 2020 and the study period and the researchers compared the occurrence of each symptom to self-reported vaccination status.
According to Edelstein, his team’s study is the most “comprehensive and precise” to date on vaccination and long Covid. He added that the results echo those of other research, including a UK-based study from last September that found that vaccination halved the risk of long Covid, the report said.
