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SV_BubbleTime • today at 4:04 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Given that the major COVID-19 vaccines had a significant protective effect against Long COVID,

Are there studies for this?

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defrost • today at 4:27 AM

"yes" ...

Australian studies show a protective effect (in that the fewer people that got COVID (correlated with vaccines) the fewer got Long COVID)

See Page 8: https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/9592f439-9b96-4589-a55d-6b0... (2022)

Australian studies in W.Australia also show:

  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:

* https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf... (2025)

( In Pop. Press: https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/more-than-half-of-long-... )