Impacts of long COVID show that child development and ability to complete an education can suffer significantly. Little is ...

Three new studies show how AI can be used to help predict and fight long COVID, especially in challenging populations like ...

The average age of children who get long COVID is about 13, but the study encompasses participants as young as 2 and as old as 20. Kids are less likely to experience lung problems from long COVID ...

Long COVID can affect kids as well as adults. Here's what to know about Long COVID symptoms, prevalence, and prevention among children.

Many parents may not know their child has long Covid, or the child’s pediatrician hasn’t recognized it as such. In adults, some research puts the number around 30% of cases.

Then, after accepting kids’ vulnerability to the virus, it was thought only adults could suffer from the myriad symptoms that persist or crop up post-infection, collectively known as long Covid.

Results of the analysis, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, showed approximately 1.01 million children, or 1.4%, are believed to have ever experienced long COVID in 2023 and about 293,000 ...

It is still unclear how many kids have long Covid and for how long, because there is not enough research on it in this age group, some experts say. A 2021 study suggested more than half of ...

“We are definitely seeing long COVID in children,” said Dr. Amanda Morrow, Co-Director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Pediatric Post-COVID-19 Clinic in Maryland. “It does exist.

Your stories about long Covid in kids Last week, we asked you to tell us about long Covid symptoms in your children. You told us about lively, active kids of all ages, who months after their ...

Rebekah Hogan has three children at home in Albany, New York. All are being treated for long COVID after mild infections. Hogan’s oldest child, 15-year-old Caleigh, has pancreatic enzymes so ...

Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal officials may withdraw an endorsement for the vaccine in younger children.