It may seem reassuring, but it still means a whole lot of people with long-term symptoms. //

"Far more people were infected first with omicron than with delta," Kevin McConway, an emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, said in a statement. "So even if the percentage of infected people who got long COVID during the two waves is on the scale that these researchers report—and it may well be—the actual numbers of people reporting long COVID after first being infected during omicron is still far larger than during delta."