"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

Sunday quickstats:

In the twelve months from Sep 2020 to Sep 2021 an average of 1.4 children a day died of COVID

1,276 children have died of COVID in the last twelve months -- 3.5 a day

Last month an average of 3.2 children (0-17yo) a day died of COVID in the United States

Thread COVID-19: Students infect more people than adults and thousands miss class

Contact tracing found students represented 42.6% of infected individuals causing onward transmission compared to 25% of non-students on average ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irv.13049 ). H/T: @rdmorris 🧵1/

Thread Prior to COVID, brain cancer was the largest disease killer of children

Today, COVID is the largest disease killer of children

NB: Individual cancers are broken out, not aggregated together under a single "cancer" category

That is the right way to do this kind of comparison

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/

Schools Are Significant Sites of COVID Transmission

"An analysis of surveillance data for almost 1000 exposures to SARS-CoV-2 found that students accounted for a higher proportion of infected individuals who caused onward transmission than did the public"

October 2022 One thing that IS totally clear about US kid COVID deaths, is they are getting worse every year.

2020 - 219 kids died 2021 - 798 died 2022 (Jan-Aug) - 705 died, on track for > 1100+ child COVID deaths

It isn't getting better. It isn't "mild". We're endangering our children.