A 16-year-old patient awaits blood testing at a Moderna Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial for adolescents in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 25, 2021. Millions of U.S. children have had long Covid, estimates ...
Rose Lehane Tureen is one busy teenager. The 16-year-old is class president, an Irish step dance champion, singer, cross-country runner and straight-A student at her high school in Maine. Her ...
In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson’s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. Due to his symptoms, he missed ...
More than a dozen long COVID symptoms overlapped between school-age kids and adolescents, yet differences did emerge in a large longitudinal observational study of U.S. children. In models adjusted ...
For years, public health experts have said that COVID-19 infections in children are “mild.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most common symptoms of COVID in ...
It’s been five years since the pandemic, but schools are continuing to let sub-par performance fly — and mental health ...
As we continue to learn more about COVID-19 and how it manifests, it’s becoming clearer how the viral infection impacts people differently based on age during and long after. Children aren’t just more ...
The first major study looking at the effects of long COVID in children was recently published in JAMA. The National Institutes of Health-funded research provides information about the common chronic ...
"I've been told that I'm spreading propaganda, that I'm lying, that the condition doesn't exist." But Anita Widdowson, from north-west Leicestershire, says she battles with the symptoms of long Covid ...
Millions of U.S. children have had long Covid, estimates suggest, but less is known about their symptoms than those of adults. A large, national study offers new insights into what the post-viral ...
Kids and teens are vulnerable to long COVID just as adults are, with a set of distinct symptoms showing long-term health effects, a new study shows. Ten symptoms in school-age children and 8 in ...