Medical staff in the Saxonbury house surgery in Sussex prepare the Covid vaccine for a patientVaccination appears to cut the probability of getting long Covid by at least half, a new study has found. The research, which looked at 1,000 previously infected people, found that those who had two doses of the vaccine before becoming infected were 50 per cent less likely to report suffering headaches and 60 per cent less likely to report tiredness and muscle pain. SponsoredAn estimated 1.3 million people in Britain have persistent symptoms more than four weeks after infection, according to the Office for National Statistics. With parts of the world gradually emerging from the pandemic, one of the key concerns is how much of a burden long Covid will be on health services in the future. Michael Edelstein, from Bar Ilan University in Israel,

Source: The Times January 19, 2022 10:38 UTC