Vaccines are no match for long Covid. Treating it is science’s next great challenge

Tue, 10 May 2022 18:25:28 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/16/vaccines-long-covid-science>

"We thought that the number of long Covid cases developing might be lower when
most cases were breakthrough cases in the vaccinated, or infections in
vaccinated or partially vaccinated children. Sadly, far from any subsidence in
new long Covid cases, the big, ongoing caseloads of the Delta, Omicron and BA.2
waves have brought a large cohort of new sufferers.

From published data, the chances of long Covid in those who are vaccinated but
suffer breakthrough infections may be halved, but when you apply this to the
huge waves we’ve experienced – 3.5 million people infected at a given time –
each 3.5 million cases becomes another 175,000 people with long Covid."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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