Study: Clinicians receiving boosters less likely to have long COVID-19

Health care workers who received two or three vaccine doses were less likely to get long COVID-19 compared with unvaccinated health care workers, according to an observational study in Italy. For health care workers infected with COVID-19, long COVID was found in 41.8% of unvaccinated workers, 30% of those with one vaccine dose, 17.4% of those with two doses and 16% of those with three doses. Meanwhile, the seven-day average of U.S. daily hospitalization due to COVID-19 is nearly 30,000 ─ up nearly 24% over the previous month, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments. The Food and Drug Administration last week called for an omicron component to be included in fall booster shots. (JAMA Research Letter, 7/1/22)