glad to hear you did not have the same problems that all these people suffered from after taking it.
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You are illiterate on the subject, so this will help.
1. What we
COVID deaths in the U.S.
- Cumulative U.S. COVID‑19 deaths are a bit over 1.1 million.
How many people have Long COVID (overall, not just vaccinated)
- CDC estimates that in 2023, about 5–7% of U.S. adults reported currently having Long COVID at any given time.
- With roughly 260 million adults, that’s on the order of 13–18 million adults currently living with Long COVID–type symptoms.
So even without splitting by vaccination, you’re looking at
well over 10 times as many people living with Long COVID as have died of COVID, probably closer to
15:1 or more.
2. What about
Here’s the key problem:No U.S. dataset cleanly answers:
“Of everyone who took the vaccine, what percent now has Long COVID?”
What we
do have:
- A 2025 Nature Communications meta‑analysis found that vaccination reduces the odds of Long COVID by about 23% compared with being unvaccinated (odds ratio ≈ 0.77 for any vaccination vs none).
- Boosters reduce the odds even further (OR ≈ 0.74 vs unvaccinated).
Given that:
- Most U.S. adults have been vaccinated at least once, and
- Vaccination lowers the risk of Long COVID rather than raising it,
the majority of Long COVID cases are likely
among people who have been vaccinated at some point, simply because they’re the majority of the population—not because the vaccine causes Long COVID.
But we
do not have a clean, national, “X% of vaccinated now have Long COVID” figure.
3. Direct answer to your ratio question
If we phrase it this way:
“Roughly how many people are living with Long COVID now, compared with how many died of COVID in the U.S.?”
A reasonable, data‑grounded ballpark is:
- Long COVID now: ~13–18 million adults
- COVID deaths total: ~1.1 million
So the ratio of
people living with Long COVID to people who died of COVID is on the order of:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status?utm_source=copilot.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65302-0?utm_source=copilot.com
ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status?utm_source=copilot.com
