Health experts are saying that thanks to vaccination, what’s referred to as Long COVID may not end up affecting as many people as previously thought.
Post-COVID-19 condition, as it’s being called by the World Health Organization, is apparently no longer an inevitability to those who get infected, and is now significantly less common than what early research suggested.
The condition can be severely debilitating, but the growing list of symptoms and conflicting estimates for how often it occurs are also making it difficult to track.
According to the CBC, Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said back in May that Long COVID may affect up to 50 percent of all patients, while the Public Health Agency of Canada says it can occur in 30 to 40 percent of people. The WHO says the condition can happen in 10 to 20 percent of COVID patients.