COVID-19疫苗接种和先前感染的有效性,以减少长期COVID风险在前奥米克朗和奥米克朗时期

Sara Carazo1,2,3, Jonathan Phimmasone1, Danuta M Skowronski4

  • 1Social and preventive medicine department, Faculty of medicine, Laval University, Quebec city, Quebec, Canada.

概括

接种COVID-19疫苗有效地预防了Omicron之前的长期COVID,并在Omicron期间将风险降低了一半以上. 对于那些已经接种了疫苗和感染的人来说,重复增强剂可能会对长期的COVID提供有限的额外益处.

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