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
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."
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
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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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/
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”
Blood clots, heart problems, kidney failure: COVID creates a higher risk for rare pediatric problems, new CDC study finds
Children and teens who’ve had COVID are at greater risk for blood clots, heart problems, kidney failure, and Type 1 diabetes, according to a new report in August 2022
Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection: an analysis of 2-year retrospective cohort studies including 1 284 437 patients
Children who got COVID-19 had increased risks of cognitive deficit, insomnia, intracranial haemorrhage, ischaemic stroke, nerve root & plexus disorders, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures (HRs: 1·20 to 2·16)."
COVID-19 is not flu, certainly.
David Steadson #NAFO 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🌍 on Twitter
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
COVID-19 Can Severely Damage Your Kids’ Brain: Symptoms To Look Out For | TheHealthSite.com
"Covid-19 can severely damage your child's brain.
The research identifies a wide spectrum of neurological complications in children and suggests they may be more common than in adults admitted with Covid-19."
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Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA on Twitter
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