Vaccines may cause rare, Long Covid–like symptoms.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Couzin-Frankel, Jennifer; Vogel, Gretchen
- Source
- Science. 1/28/2022, Vol. 375 Issue 6579, p364-366. 3p. 2 Color Photographs.
- Subject
- *VIRAL vaccines
*CORONAVIRUS diseases
*VACCINATION complications
*CHRONIC diseases
*VACCINES
- Language
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
The article examines the health problems experienced by some people after a COVID-19 vaccine. Topics include information on Long Covid, a chronic, disabling syndrome that can follow a bout with the virus; complications connected to the vaccines that have been recognized; and emphasis made by researchers exploring postvaccine effects on the risk of complications from SARS-CoV-2 infection.