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**Hugh** · 07-02-2021, 13:55

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Originally Posted by Pierre

This was on the news this morning, saying the jab might not prevent you from getting a mild infection. So what?

You’re already 99.2% unlikely to die from the virus without any vaccine, if the vaccine means you stay out of hospital but get the sniffles and a cough then it’s good enough.

Because we don’t know the impact of Long COVID yet - it seems to affect those who haven’t been ill enough to be hospitalised as well.

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n132

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Many of the risk factors for severity of acute covid-19, such as age, male sex, obesity, and ethnicity do not appear explicitly to enhance the chance of long covid. Also, there seems no clear correlation between severity of the acute disease and long term sequelae. Indeed, many patients come from that large, hidden group who self-isolated when they were unwell at home, did not access a polymerase chain reaction test, and so have no formal health record of covid-19. These points highlight an uncharted pathophysiology, and demand a better answer than “post-viral syndrome” or the notion that people are bound to “feel a bit rough” coming out of hospital

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026

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What are the symptoms?

Post-acute covid-19 symptoms vary widely. Even so-called mild covid-19 may be associated with long term symptoms, most commonly cough, low grade fever, and fatigue, all of which may relapse and remit.47 Other reported symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, headaches, neurocognitive difficulties, muscle pains and weakness, gastrointestinal upset, rashes, metabolic disruption (such as poor control of diabetes), thromboembolic conditions, and depression and other mental health conditions.424 Skin rashes can take many forms including vesicular, maculopapular, urticarial, or chilblain-like lesions on the extremities (so called covid toe)