Thread NO! infections in children DON'T train their immune system!
👉Early childhood lower respiratory tract infection and premature adult death from respiratory disease in Great Britain: a national birth cohort study.
Thread Omicron is a stealth virus
Fascinating research from Germany reveals vital difference in antibody response to Omicron versus prior variants
Ongoing study of 1850 children since 2020
Very few developed antibody after Omicron infection (18%), versus 68% for prior variants
“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
Thread “After adjusting for other factors like genetics, researchers found contracting COVID-19 nearly tripled children’s risk of mental health problems.” More than 1/3 of the affected children were diagnosed with ADHD; 2 in 5 had an anxiety disorder; 1 in 5 had a trauma disorder.
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.
April 2023 A new COVID-19 variant that recently landed on the World Health Organization’s radar may cause previously unseen symptoms in children, according to a new report. https://wb.md/43xAtTO
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
April 2023 Covid cases on rise among kids under 12 years in Delhi
Watch the first in a series of special reports by @staceypooleITV on the children living with Long Covid.
Babies. Risk. What are we doing to future generations? A thread and discussion
High levels of gliosis occur in the neonatal brain within a week after in utero infection, and macrosomia is seen in infected pups. COVID-19 infection in pregnant hACE2-KI mice replicates infection severity and effects seen in pregnant women.
“Pregnant women with Covid face a sevenfold risk of dying compared with uninfected pregnant women…. The infection also makes it more likely that a woman will give birth prematurely and that the baby will require neonatal intensive care”
Is it true that healthy kids never end up in hospital due to covid-19?
False.
49% of children hospitalised for Covid-19 in the USA had no pre-existing conditions. They were previously fully healthy children . CDC data.