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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Brain damage after even mild Covid in kids: Omicron is much better at invading children's noses, predicts memory issues. "Severity of smell dysfunction after infection may be a better predictor of long-term cognitive impairment than severity of COVID-19"
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
The World's Largest Study On Long COVID-19 In Infants & Toddlers:
“40% of children under the age of 3 continued to suffer from certain symptoms two months after they were infected”
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.
one in 100 kids get MIS-C / PIMS after Covid infection???
"Harvard University on paediatric Covid-19 has found about 1 percent of children are developing a related disease called multiple inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)"
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.
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
#covid #longcovid #longcovidkids
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 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 When over half of kids & half of young adults have gotten #COVID19–#LongCovid impact for years to come will be crazy high. That’s both physical illness, mental illness, cognitive deficits, and ballooning healthcare costs. Mark my works—we will regret “let it rip”. #CovidIsNotOver