Persistence in risk and effect of COVID-19 vaccination on long-term health consequences after SARS-CoV-2 infection.

ABSTRACT: The persisting risk of long-term health consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the protection against such risk conferred by COVID-19 vaccination remains unclear. Here we conducted a retrospective territory-wide cohort study on 1,175,277 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection stratified by their vaccination status and non-infected controls to evaluate the risk of clinical sequelae, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality using a territory-wide public healthcare database with population-based vaccination records in Hong Kong. A progressive reduction in risk of all-cause mortality was observed over one year between patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and controls. Patients with complete vaccination or have received booster dose incurred a lower risk of health consequences including major cardiov

SUBMITTER: Lam ICH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10894867 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature