Research published Friday suggests that less than 10% of children with Covid will go on to have long-term symptoms.
Students at Wyandotte County High School in Kansas City, Kan., walk through a hallway on March 31, 2021.An international study estimates the prevalence of long Covid in children to be anywhere from 5% to 10% — a figure that's far lower than estimates of long Covid in more than a third of adults., also suggested that several factors could predict which children with Covid may have ongoing symptoms or develop new ones in the 90 days following infection.
The project included 1,884 children diagnosed with Covid and seen in an emergency department from March 2020 through late January 2021, as well as 1,701 children without Covid, but who sought urgent care for other reasons. The number of children testing positive for Covid has been rising in recent months. More than 75,000 new pediatric cases were reported the week ending July 14, according to theThe study's estimates of about 5% to 10% of kids with long Covid line up with what pediatric infectious disease experts are seeing in their clinics, said Dr. Roberta DeBiasi, chief of infectious diseases at Children’s National Hospital in Washington.
"So much has been going on at the same time in the lives of adolescents," Kuppermann said."They've been isolated from their friends. They've not been in school."
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