Long COVID afflicts kids too. Here's what we know so far.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As an 11-year-old in a pre-COVID-19 world, Wednesday Lynch loved being part of a competitive cheer team. She’d gotten good at no-hands cartwheels and back tucks. Wednesday also adored hanging out with friends and riding her bicycle around her Dallas, North Carolina, neighborhood.

All that changed last September, when Wednesday was exposed to COVID-19 while attending virtual school with other socially distanced students at her gym. “A teen in the room didn’t know she had it at the time,” her mom Melissa recalls. Wednesday tested positive soon after.

She experienced many classic COVID-19 symptoms: exhaustion, low oxygen levels, and a loss of smell. Melissa Lynch cared for her daughter at home and after a few weeks the doctor said she could resume her regular activities.

Yet 10 months later she still hasn’t been able to. Every few weeks Wednesday has what her mother calls a wave of illness—three days to a week where she’s so tired she can barely sit up, her heart races, her head pounds, she sometimes spikes a fever, and, in the most recent wave, she had a seizure. Melissa has carted her daughter from doctor to doctor, some of whom were less than helpful; after one physician thought the virus might have damaged Wednesday’s heart, a cardiologist insisted there was nothing wrong. Wednesday is now being assessed by a special COVID Recovery Clinic at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, although few treatments have yet been offered. “It’s frustrating that there’s nothing really available. As one doctor told me, We’re all in the woods,” Melissa says.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/long-covid-afflicts-kids-too-heres-what-we-know-so-far

[Ms. Toad]

1. But I thought it didn't afflict kids,

so we didn't need to worry about the fact that most of the unvaccinated people are running around not wearing masks. Since kids don't get bad cases we didn't need to worry.



(Thanks. Sometimes it seems like I'm shouting in a wind tunnel.)

[Murphyb849]

2. I am a nurse who got covid. I had a huge viral load. I now have long covid.

Vaccinate. This virus is no joke. And it is mutating as we speak due to so many refusing to vaccinate and getting covid.

[catrose]

3. I hope the vaccine helps her. Some long haulers say it does.

[JCMach1]

5. I discount the reports. I had severe Covid and long symptoms

Pfizer knocked me backwards about two months of recovery time.

Per the script, Covid is highly idiosyncratic

[appalachiablue]

4. The vaccine could help her, a month

or two ago there was a small wave of reporting on how some long covid sufferers have benefited from the vaccine. The illness needs more study. I did some posts on this topic in the Health section.