Findings released in the medical journal The Lancet indicate the omicron variant is much less likely to cause so-called long COVID in vaccinated patients than the delta variant. Only about 5% of vaccinated COVID-19 patients infected with the omicron variant reported experiencing brain fog, heart problems, or other health issues a month after testing positive for the disease.
Dr. Sabiha Hussain heads the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Post-COVID Recovery Program. “The study is encouraging,” she said, “but there’s a little caveat… The study only looked at individuals who were vaccinated and did not look at individuals who were not vaccinated.”
