Long Covid, Andreoni: “Vaccine protects against post-illness”

The massive vaccination campaign against Covid “has positive consequences also on the post-illness”. This was confirmed by Adnkronos Salute Massimo Andreoni, head of infectious disease at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome and scientific director of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit), along the same lines as infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti who stressed that “in 2022 the post disease is milder thanks to vaccines “, compared to the heaviest long Covid cases recorded in 2020-21. “We are trying to better define this type of analysis, but I would say that there is a difference between the long Covid after the vaccination campaign and the cases seen in the period in which we did not have the vaccine – highlights Andreoni – The feeling is therefore that immunization protect from long Covid. I must say that it was not taken for granted “. In fact, the expert explains that, “despite having a less aggressive disease today, it does not mean that there could not be consequences afterward. In fact, in the first phase of the pandemic, long Covid was also recorded in those who had mild forms of the disease”. So “vaccine immunity could actually reduce post Covid”. And the unvaccinated? “They are much less – replies the infectious disease specialist – and post Covid affects a third of patients. It is clear that those who are not vaccinated risk having, after the disease, some more consequences, even very similar to those we saw in the 2020-21 “.