Omicron ‘less likely to cause long COVID’ than Delta
Risk of lingering symptoms lower with Omicron but absolute numbers are higher: UK authors
The Omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID than previous coronavirus variants, according to the first peer-reviewed study of its kind from the UK.
The odds of developing long COVID after infection were 20-50% lower in the UK during the Omicron wave compared with the earlier Delta wave, the study in The Lancet shows.
