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It is important to note that given the timeline in the study (March 2020 to Jan 2021) most of the COVID-19 group was likely unvaccinated. It remains to be seen whether vaccination protects against these same risks.

Edit: This is confirmed in the supplementary data. Only 347 (0.23%) of the 162,690 people in the COVID-19 group were vaccinated prior to infection. That being said, a reasonably large percentage (61.93%) were vaccinated by the end of the follow up period, which would seemingly indicate that vaccination post-infection doesn't help all that much against these risks.



Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3

That's the pool of 60+ year-old veterans who were selected after testing positive and then subsequently monitored for one year.

It is likely that many were vaccinated during the 1-year period from Jan 2021 - Jan 2022.

e.g. as of July 2021, the VA % vaccinated was about 50%, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/26/va-man...

We know that mRNA vaccines have resulted in negative cardiac consequences in some patients, although that has mostly been in younger men.


I'm not sure how that contradicts what I said? Most of the people in the COVID-19 group tested positive before the vaccines were approved in December 2020. Yes, they might have been vaccinated afterwards, but my point is they did not have vaccine-induced antibodies at the time of their infections.


It's crazy that they do not say anything in their study about the biggest confound ever, the vaccine.




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