Can you still get ‘long COVID’ if you’re fully vaccinated? Here’s what we know

In the pantheon of enigmas among COVID's seemingly endless box of mysteries, there are few more perplexing than the phenomenon of long COVID. Also called long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19, chronic COVID, or just the long-term effects of COVID, this is a condition where someone infected with COVID may have coronavirus-related symptoms a month or longer after first contracting the pathogen, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). But does being fully vaccinated against COVID prevent, or at least mitigate the possibility of suffering from one of more of the disease's multitude of symptoms for...