Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion

Dr. Colm Henry:

There is no relationship to the vaccine. As we know, the vaccine protects people from serious illness. The point I was making earlier is that it is not necessarily related to the original severity of the illness. We would expect people in intensive care or those in hospital for a protracted time to have post-acute symptoms for four, six or eight weeks after admission. For long Covid syndrome, there is a looser correlation with the original severity of the illness. There is a correlation but it is not as strong.

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