Millions of people remain at risk of developing long Covid, with a bewildering array of potentially debilitating symptoms
As vaccines blunt the threat of severe illness and death from Covid-19, millions of people remain at risk of developing an array of less serious but potentially debilitating long-term symptoms of the disease that scientists call long Covid.
Many of the most vulnerable are among younger unvaccinated people who are unprotected against the rapidly spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus, now responsible forLong Covid—a term referring to symptoms that linger for weeks or months beyond infection—affects between 10% and 30% of people who catch the virus, including those with mild or asymptomatic infections, according to experts.
as states relax restrictions and the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads. That increase won’t cause as many cases of serious illness or death as in previous waves, thanks to high vaccination uptake among the oldest and most vulnerable. But it could lead to
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