> In the first transfer experiment, most patient participants had been vaccinated prior to sampling, whereas the controls were not. Importantly, in our follow-up experiment, we used post-pandemic controls (exposed and vaccinated), and their IgG still did not induce the overt pain phenotype seen with long COVID IgG, suggesting vaccination alone is unlikely to explain the transfer effects.
Given that the major COVID-19 vaccines had a significant protective effect against Long COVID, this is a particularly perverse variation on the conspiracy theory.
Long COVID is much more prevalent among people who’ve experienced severe COVID symptoms, and unvaccinated people have the most severe symptoms. One doesn’t need a PhD to do the math here.
In multivariable analyses, pre-existing health conditions at the time of initial SARS-CoV-2 infection and reporting fatigue, shortness of breath, and cough 3 months post-infection were independent predictors of persistent long COVID.
Age, sex, and number of COVID vaccinations were not significantly associated with persistent long COVID.
which needs to be qualified with an "of course" as W.Australia (3xsize of Texas, small population) was isolated from the world and then almost the entire state got two to three rounds of vaccination at much the same time:
In 6 months they'll be in the comments on the next article about covid railing against the vaccine again. It's never enough with these guys, because it's not about being right or wrong, it's about having their feelings validated. They feel like the vaccine was bad, facts be damned.
