It can affect children as well as adults
reached a similar conclusion when looking at several hundred kids who were unvaccinated and sick enough to be hospitalized for either acute COVID-19 or MIS-C, an. Roughly 25% had ongoing health issues two to four months later.
“The messaging has been, ‘Kids, if they get [COVID-19], will be fine,’” says study co-author Dr. Adrienne Randolph, a critical care specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital. “Yeah, most of them. But if your kid gets severe COVID-19, they’re at risk of having symptoms months later.” Randolph’s study looked specifically at unvaccinated children sick enough to be hospitalized—a rare outcome for kids who get COVID-19—so it’s impossible to extend the findings to all kids. Plus, under the stress of the pandemic, symptoms like fatigue and headaches have become common across the board, and not all studies have been able to tease out how much of that is linked to Long COVID versus other factors, Randolph says.
, circulatory issues, malaise and fatigue, and pain. By the end of the study period, kids who’d had COVID-19 were also more likely to have developed cardiovascular problems, kidney failure, and diabetes, but those conditions were rare in both groups.Researchers are still trying to answer that question, but there are some clues.
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