Covid-19 Vaccination Linked To Lower Long Covid Risk In Adolescents

Adolescents who were vaccinated against COVID-19 were little apt to create agelong COVID aft their first SARS-CoV-2 infection than unvaccinated peers, finds a caller study.

The study, led by nan NIH-funded RECOVER Initiative, is nan first to analyse nan imaginable benefits of COVID vaccination successful adolescents beyond lowering nan severity of first COVID symptoms. 

"These findings supply grounds that COVID vaccination has an important secondary effect successful helping to mitigate nan consequence of agelong COVID successful adolescents," says Melissa Stockwell, a pediatrician astatine Columbia University Irving Medical Center and objective elder writer of nan study.

The RECOVER investigation squad estimates that astir 5.8 cardinal youths person knowledgeable agelong COVID which tin see prolonged symptoms specified arsenic daytime fatigue, associated and musculus aches, and representation problems.

Previous studies person shown that vaccination against COVID-19 tin trim nan consequence of agelong COVID successful adults. But grounds of a akin use among youths has been limited. 

The caller study included complete 1,200 adolescents from crossed nan United States; 724 were vaccinated against COVID successful nan six months anterior to their first infection and 507 were not vaccinated. 

The researchers recovered that nan consequence of processing agelong COVID was complete 20% among unvaccinated youths and astir 13% among those who were vaccinated-representing a 36% simplification successful consequence aft vaccination. 

"Every day, our study sees young group who are incapable to afloat participate successful nan activities they bask while they woody pinch agelong COVID symptoms," says Stockwell. "While our study did not look astatine nan effects of COVID vaccination successful adolescents pinch consequent infections, our findings powerfully propose that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 could let galore much adolescents to unrecorded their lives usually aft COVID infection."