{"id":9367,"date":"2025-11-03T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:00:49","slug":"covid-vaccination-cuts-risk-of-long-term-symptoms-in-teens-by-over-a-third-data-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-vaccination-cuts-risk-of-long-term-symptoms-in-teens-by-over-a-third-data-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID vaccination cuts risk of long-term symptoms in teens by over a third, data suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of long COVID was 36% lower in adolescents vaccinated within 6&nbsp;months before their first infection than in their unvaccinated peers, suggests an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264410X25012046\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a> of US Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) trial data published late last week in <em>Vaccine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, involved 724 adolescents aged 12 to 17&nbsp;years who were vaccinated against COVID-19 within the previous 6&nbsp;months and 507 unvaccinated youth matched on sex, symptom onset, and enrollment date.<\/p>\n<p>Participants were recruited from more than 60 healthcare and community settings, and 86% of vaccinated adolescents reported receiving at least two doses within 18&nbsp;months before their first COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>RECOVER-Pediatrics is an observational cohort study of long COVID (LC) based on caregiver-reported survey data that retrospectively analyzes the link between vaccination status and long COVID in youth infected from February 2022 to November 2024, during predominance of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of long COVID was 36% lower in adolescents vaccinated within 6&nbsp;months before their first infection than in their unvaccinated peers, suggests an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264410X25012046\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a> of US Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) trial data published late last week in <em>Vaccine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, involved 724 adolescents aged 12 to 17&nbsp;years who were vaccinated against COVID-19 within the previous 6&nbsp;months and 507 unvaccinated youth matched on sex, symptom onset, and enrollment date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-vaccination-cuts-risk-of-long-term-symptoms-in-teens-by-over-a-third-data-suggest\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID vaccination cuts risk of long-term symptoms in teens by over a third, data suggest<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,18,11,1388,868,8,14,848,51,15],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-massachusetts-general-hospital","tag-pediatric-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-teens","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9370,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}