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
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Tillie caught Covid back in December 2020 and is now living with long Covid. She now wants to support other families in a similar situation. @tilliesjourney
Read more on long Covid...https://bbc.in/3tMuc5D
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6 y.o. Aria Shapiro from Arizona is 1 of 470,000 children unfortunate to have epilepsy in the U.S. This is the face of a child with "underlying conditions." She was partially vaccinated when she became severely ill from COVID. #TheySurvivedCovid https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4ExbHL8Ujg
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“What we’re seeing is the children, about 50% of them, will need to be in the ICU. They need breathing support, whether that’s oxygen, extra pressure, sometimes even breathing tubes. Children do die from covid.” --Louisiana neonatologist describes the situation at his hospital.
Concerns grow for kids as COVID-19 delta variant continues to spread and hospitalizations rise
“The most scary to me are the ones that are coming after one month or two months with the multi-system inflammatory syndrome. They come with neurological compromises, G.I. compromises—and Myocarditis is almost universal in all of those children. They are scary to treat,”
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“The difference with the Delta variant is how it’s affecting children. We have 17 children admitted to Arkansas Children’s Hospital with COVID: eight are in the ICU, five are requiring mechanical ventilation. ALL of the children in the ICU were vaccine eligible.” - Rick Barr, MD
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School-aged children in Louisiana now make up the third largest number of new COVID infections in the state: "This delta variant changes the game ... children are more ill, they require higher levels of care and sadly I think we will see more deaths in the coming weeks."