COVID-19 Vaccine Reduces Long COVID in Children
Recent research indicates that COVID-19 vaccines offer moderate protection against long COVID in children, with greater effectiveness observed in adolescents.Vaccination associated with moderate protection in large, diverse cohort.Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, reduces the risk of serious acute illness in children and adolescents. However, its role in protecting against persistent health problems in the months after COVID-19, or “long COVID,” was less clear.Now, researchers from 17 health…