Risk of long COVID associated with delta versus omicron20 Sep 2022 09:33
A most interesting recent study published in the The Lancet about the "Risk of long COVID associated with delta versus omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2" :
"Overall, we found a reduction in odds of long COVID with the omicron variant versus the delta variant of 0·24–0·50 depending on age and time since vaccination. However, the absolute number of people experiencing long COVID at a given time depends on the shape and amplitude of the pandemic curve. For example, given the high numbers of people infected with omicron in the UK from December, 2021, to February, 2022, our data are consistent with the UK Office for National Statistics, who estimated that the numbers of people experiencing long COVID actually increased from 1·3 million in January, 2022, to 1·7 million in March, 2022.4 Considering the UK omicron peak of more than 350?000 new symptomatic COVID-19 cases per day estimated on March 26, 2022, by the ZOE app model and 4% of cases being long COVID, future numbers with long COVID will inevitably rise."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00941-2/fulltext