Vaccination driving down long COVID risk, but numbers still high | Kaubo
One in 20 Australians infected with COVID-19 during the Omicron wave is expected to still have symptoms three months later, but as vaccination rates rise the prevalence of long COVID among those infected is declining, an infectious diseases expert says.
“It’s the people who haven’t been infected yet and are not up-to-date with vaccination that are the greatest concern,” said the infectious disease physician who treats patients at St Vincent Hospital’s Long COVID outpatient clinic in Darlinghurst. Kaillee Dyke will join a panel discussion at the Australasian COVID-19 Conference held in Sydney on Thursday and Friday.“What is clearly worrying is that a significant proportion of long COVID patients who were infected in the unvaccinated era still have debilitating symptoms two years on.”
“I still have breathlessness … my lungs aren’t working as well as they used to, and I still have brain fog. My symptoms have decreased all the time but they’re still quite prominent,” she said.
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