Long COVID is less common in children than in adults, but scientists are trying to understand the symptoms—and risks—for young people. Here’s what we know about the condition in kids
Owen, 11, was the last in his family to get COVID-19. While everyone else recovered within two weeks, his symptoms lingered. Over the next few weeks his vision blurred, his skin turned pale, he began forgetting things, and every night he experienced excruciating pain in his chest and abdomen. “You just didn’t know if he was going to be with you tomorrow,” says Owen’s mother, Susie.
Long COVID is less common in children than in adults, but more researchers have been trying to understand the condition in kids and determine who might be at risk as the pandemic has continued. Currently there are only about a dozen pediatric long COVID clinics in the U.S., according to amaintained by a support group called long COVID Families.
“It’s probably a grab bag of many things,” says Betsy Herold, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, “and we don’t know that everything we’re calling long COVID is the same thing.”
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