The news isn t all bad: People who have COVID-19 but no symptoms are much less likely to get long COVID, and the vaccines also seem to offer protection from lingering effects.
Multiple studies are evaluating people with long COVID in the hopes of figuring out why some people experience debilitating symptoms long after their primary infection ends; others recover more quickly.
Millions of older adults are grappling with long covid, yet the impact on them has received little attention even though research suggests seniors are more likely to develop the poorly understood condition than younger or middle-aged adults.