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This is a retrospective of people who got covid mostly in 2021, separating those who got no vaccine at all from those who got a vaccine (but in most cases no booster).
We've had a number of other papers already over the past couple of years comparing long covid between totally unvaccinated vs. once-vaccinated people, from the first year or two after vaccines became available. Does this paper show anything particularly noteworthy that wasn't found by past papers? (I'm in favor of establishing reproducibility of results by publishing independently arrived at papers looking at the same thing, just curious if this one found anything particularly different)
Comment by ConspiracyPhD at 05/02/2025 at 06:15 UTC
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The goal of this paper isn't to just compare long COVID in those that are unvaccinated versus vaccinated. The paper shows improvements in long COVID patients **after** vaccination. So, patients that were not previously vaccinated, got infected, then were vaccinated. "Of the 405 patients who were already vaccinated, 336 (82.9%) received their first vaccine dose after the infection." This is really the population that they are trying to study here but they could have done a better job in breaking them out.