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Vaccination Still the Best Defense Against Long COVID: CDC Recommendations in Brief
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COVID-19 continues to cast its lingering shadow in the form of long COVID, even as the number of people impacted by the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains relatively low compared to the early pandemic and as recent variants prove more transmissible yet not more virulent.
The single most effective deterrent to developing long COVID is vaccination against the virus. This short slide show highlights information from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention on the most common symptoms seen with long COVID and COVID-19 vaccination recommendations. For more details, view our video discussion series titled,
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