Long COVID Risk Has Dropped Since Start of Pandemic (Links to an external site)

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, found that chances of developing long COVID have significantly dropped since the pandemic began due to vaccinations and changes in the virus.

Risk of long COVID declined over course of pandemic (Links to an external site)

The risk of acquiring long COVID has dropped since the start of the pandemic, primarily due to vaccination, although it is still a persistent threat, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar.

COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after infection, according to a study of more than 130,000 patients (Links to an external site)

“People are developing new-onset disease as the result of an infection that they had three years ago,” says said senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor and Public Health Faculty Scholar, regarding his research published in Nature Medicine, that tracked COVID-19’s health effects in people infected with the original strain in 2020.

Real-world reflections (Links to an external site)

Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholar Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, is featured in this month’s WashU’s Outlook Magazine about his work on “society’s biggest health issues through vast data analysis”