The gist: While we do need well-designed prospective studies that look explicitly at whether or not vaccines prevent long COVID, and those studies are underway, we know that you need to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 to develop long COVID. We have quite a bit of data to show that vaccines do in fact prevent that, both by preventing direct infection of the vaccinated individual and by blocking subsequent transmission of the virus. For that reason, it’s likely that COVID-19 vaccines do in fact ...
