Thread New study documents covid-triggered brain inflammation resulting in the death of a previously healthy 9 year-old girl. From the doubled chance of type 1 diabetes, to brain damage and death, will the mass media ever report on the harm to children from repeat covid infections?
Excellent detailed thread on Covid and Kids A 🧵 on children and C-vid.
We are woefully uninformed with regards to the long term effects of this novel pathogen hence it would be wise to protect our children. It is our responsibility. Wear a 😷 . Advocate for clean air. 💉 yourself and your family.
Thread COVID-19: Pediatric Diabetes, Lung Damage, Brain Impact, Newborns, and Higher Hospitalization Rates
Studies show kids are also at risk of long-term consequences from infection and especially those <5 for higher rates of hospitalization than most adults. Let's take a look.🧵1/
6yr old son First day of High School Day 594 of Long Covid
He came home and virtually collapsed. He felt like someone was sitting on his chest and he was suffocating. Pulse was >110, smartwatch shows it >160 during the school day.
He'll be home for day two.💔 #longcovidkids
New @TheLancetPsych study of 1.5 million people shows #COVID increases risk of cognitive decline, dementia, epilepsy, & psychosis.
Most striking finding, to me, is that it documents the serious outcomes in kids. #LongCOVID https://thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00260-7/fulltext
Thread POST-COVID & Kids🚨
New @CDCgov report showing quite clearly that children are at significantly more risk for life-threatening diagnoses after COVID infection. Very convincing evidence that prevention of COVID-19 in children is very important to reduce childhood mortality.
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Minimising the experience of children living with #LongCovid has an ongoing impact on those suffering.
"This is Daniel. He is 16 - LC for 16 months. Due to ongoing stomach pains, he is scared of eating & now has an eating disorder too, skin & bone"
#LongCovidKids #ChildHealth
Thread A solid hypothesis for the basis of the mysterious, severe acute hepatitis in children: superantigen formation from prior Covid viral reservoir in the GI tract with superimposed adenovirus infection https://thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(22)00166-2/fulltext @LancetGastroHep
Conversation now with the mother of a child who got COVID a month ago, had to go to ER for fluids, and now slowly recovering with a huge setback yesterday:
“But he’s only 11. Why is this happening to him?”
Please keep your children safe.
Masks and vaccines are not lockdowns.
Thread A detailed 🧵 on the alarming rise in cases of acute liver failure in healthy children:
Media + scientific bodies have placed undue emphasis on Adenovirus infection as the leading culprit in such cases of liver failure.
Let us see if this claim holds water [short answer: No!]
Thread 1/ Covid: Study from India shows 'sudden rise' in children with Hepatitis after 'mild' and asymptomatic infections as UKHSA claims that the sudden rise in Hep in kids in the UK is due to a common cold virus. Kids developed Hep after mild and asymptomatic infections.
Thread Todays IDK who needs to hear this:
Children under age 5 (ie those both ineligible for vaccinations, and most unable to wear a well fitted mask) have a higher death rate than older kids from the virus. They account for 15% of pediatric Covid cases but 35% of pediatric deaths.
Thread ONS data on long COVID out today very concerning -persistent symptoms affecting daily life affect a significant proportion of primary & 2ndary school age children -clear impact on children's wellbeing 🧵
Thread 1,346 children have died from COVID. 434 of these kids were too young to get vaccinated. 10,000s critically ill but survived. 6,000 suffered life threatening multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Several suffer from Long Covid. #GetVaccinated #MaskUp https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics
Thread ‘According to the Government of Canada re #LongCovidKids
“About 58% of children had 1 or more symptoms 4 weeks or more after their initial COVID-19 infection.” ‘
