Lead researcher Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, spoke with Medscape about his team’s findings, what we know and don’t about long COVID, and what it means for physicians treating patients with the condition.
Compared with patients who were vaccinated and boosted, unvaccinated patients with COVID-19 had a 21-fold greater risk for hospitalization, data suggest.
Maternal vaccination with two doses of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was 95% effective against infant infection from the Delta variant, and 45% effective against infant infection from the Omicron variant.