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Clinical characteristics, activity levels and mental health problems in children with long coronavirus disease: a survey of 510 children
Long-COVID in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analyses
Long-COVID in children and adolescents: a systematic review meta-analyses: 8373 publications, 21 studies met criteria, total of 80,071 children- adolescents included. prevalence of long-COVID was 25.24%,most prevalent clinical: mood symptoms (16.50%),
Nate Bear on Twitter
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?
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New study:
“12-16% children and youth infected with Omicron met the research definition of #LongCovid at 3 and 6 months after infection, with no evidence of difference between cases of first-positive and reinfection”
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This study by Shamez Ladhani & others suggests the COVID-19 response is wrong. Children are at as much risk of LC from reinfection as the are from primary infection.
Incidental Finding of Coronary Artery Dilatation in Children With History of COVID-19 Having Minimal or No Symptoms: Raising Red Flag
Incidental Finding of Coronary Artery Dilatation in Children With History of COVID-19 Having Minimal or No Symptoms: Raising Red Flag"
FedericoAMC, MS on Twitter
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.
What does long COVID do to kids? What we've learned after a year of research.
"Over the past year, clinicians have learned that an estimated 5% to 10% of children and teens develop a wide range of ongoing health problems called post-COVID conditions, or long COVID"
AHA News: Long COVID in Children Still Poses Plenty of Questions
"I would say on average, we're looking at somewhere between 4% to 25% of kids who have had a SARS-CoV-2 infection go on to have symptoms of long COVID,"
Doctors watching for more cases after mysterious cluster of brain infections strikes kids in southern Nevada | CNN
Disease detectives with the US CDC are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from other parts of the country say they may be seeing a rise in cases, too.”
Opinion: Treating kids as invulnerable is treating them as disposable
“We are just hoping kids will be OK. I don’t see how they will be. The data suggest they won’t be. But barely anyone is facing this inconvenient truth.” #SARSCoV2 #BringBackMasks #LongCovid #LongCovidKids #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
What does long COVID do to kids? What we've learned after a year of research.
What does long COVID do to kids? What we've learned after a year of research. “Many of these kids were completely healthy kids prior to the diagnosis and it can completely disrupt their life and their ability to participate in sports and school,” one researcher said.
Hospitals Intensify Efforts to Treat Long COVID in Kids and Teens
"'What's the most challenging...is just the sheer volume' of patients. In Ohio, between 30,000 and 70,000 children have long COVID. She sees kids whenever she can – even at night. But despite these efforts, 'I can't possibly see them all...'"
How long Covid left sports-loving girl, 10, 'unable to stand up' | ITV News
10-year-old Libby has spoken about the pain of being hardly unable to walk and the "constant headaches" she suffers after developing serious complications from Covid.
https://itv.com/news/wales/2023-04-14/how-long-covid-left-sports-loving-10-year-old-unable-to-stand
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #Wales @ITVWales
Hospitals Intensify Efforts to Treat Long COVID in Kids and Teens
Hospitals Intensify Efforts to Treat Long COVID in Kids and Teens
Japan: Over 10% Of Kids With COVID-related Brain Disease Died In Japan – Survey
"More than 10 percent of children in Japan who developed acute brain syndrome after infection with COVID-19 have died, results of a nationwide survey recently announced by a health ministry research team has shown."
ITV News Meridian on Twitter
Watch the first in a series of special reports by @staceypooleITV on the children living with Long Covid.
Unusual post-COVID symptoms in children | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
"Unusual post-COVID symptoms in children"
Mid- and Long-Term Atrio-Ventricular Functional Changes in Children after Recovery from COVID-19
Mid- and Long-Term Atrio-Ventricular Functional Changes in Children after Recovery from COVID-19
Mid- and Long-Term Atrio-Ventricular Functional Changes in Children after Recovery from COVID-19
"Our study demonstrated for the first time the persistence of LV myocardial deformation abnormalities in previously healthy children with an asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic COVID-19 course after an average follow-up of 148 ± 68 days.
#LongCovidKids
COVID-19 neuro complications, long-term symptoms in kids
"Two US studies describe pediatric COVID...7.0% of hospitalized children developed neurologic complications such as seizures...even mild infections can lead to long COVID."
Post-COVID-19-associated morbidity in children, adolescents, and adults: A matched cohort study including more than 157,000 individuals with COVID-19 in Germany
...we observed significant new onset morbidity in children, adolescents, and adults across 13 prespecified diagnosis/symptom complexes, following COVID-19 infection. These findings expand the existing available evidence on post-COVID-19 conditions..."
Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉 on Twitter
Kids have significantly higher risk of cardiac, neurological and other disorders after #COVID19 #LongCovid See blue dots on left. If the estimate does not cross 1, it is significantly raised. #children https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004122
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Opinion: Kids are suffering from COVID in ways we never expected
"Since COVID-19 started wreaking havoc in early 2020, we have made the mistake, time and time again, of taking children for granted."
Jeff Gilchrist on Twitter
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/
Lasting Lung Damage Seen in Children and Teens after COVID
Children and adolescents who have either recovered from COVID-19 or have long COVID show persistent lung damage on MRI, according to a study published in Radiology"
Juvenile type 1 diabetes associated with COVID-19 infection in children, CWRU study finds
Juvenile type 1 diabetes associated with COVID-19 infection in children, CWRU study finds
Long COVID symptoms in SARS-CoV-2-positive children aged 0–14 years and matched controls in Denmark (LongCOVIDKidsDK): a national, cross-sectional study
Compared with controls, children aged 0–14 years who had a SARS-CoV-2 infection had more prevalent long-lasting symptoms.
Prevalence of symptoms, comorbidities, fibrin amyloid microclots and platelet pathology in individuals with Long COVID/ Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)
Prevalence of symptoms, comorbidities, fibrin amyloid microclots and platelet pathology in individuals with Long COVID/ Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) We are sending children to school with no mitigations and a 5% chance of a disease that damages you blood vessels.🩸 ALL 80 patients tested in this paper had moderate microclots.
A Colorado teen’s long COVID isn’t just persisting — after 2 years, it’s getting worse
"A Colorado teen’s long COVID isn’t just persisting — after 2 years, it’s getting worse"
"Lilly Downs, now 18, is fighting life-threatening infections as doctors try to solve “a very big medical mystery”