Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/jUgc6YPWkrE   Your chance of developing LongCovid is about 21% greater after an Omicron BA.2 infection compared with a Delta infection.  The UK’s Office for National Statistics surveyed 6631 persons infected with either the CoVid Delta variant or one of the Omicron subvariants after 3 shots of either the Pfizer, Moderna, or AstraZenaca CoVid vaccines.  The survey asked participants if they experienced any symptoms of LongCovid from 4 to 8 weeks after their infections.  If so, did their LongCovid symptoms interfere with their daily activities.   When the numbers were crunched, the incidence of LongCovid for the triple vaccinated was about 8 to over 9%.  Unlike the situation for Delta, the addition of the 3rd shot did not measurably decrease the LongCovid incidence after the Omicron subvariants.   In general, the incidence of any LongCovid trended higher after Omicron BA.2 than after either Omicron BA.1 or Delta.  The incidence of activity-limiting LongCovid was no higher after BA.2