"This is a public health crisis for children. And it demands action," Long Covid Families said in its promotion of the ...

Five years on, the pandemic's shadow looms large, revealing unexpected health challenges. Discover the surprising link between Covid-19 and digestive disorders.

Yonker is a co-inventor on a patent for zonulin antagonists to treat MIS-C, as are two other co-authors. Co-authors also ...

While adults are more likely to get long COVID than are children, the risk of pediatric PCC is between 1% and 3% among those infected with COVID, the authors noted. “It was a minority of the ...

A quarter had suffered more frequent coughs, colds and stomach bugs since infection, while one in five reported ongoing symptoms, such as headaches (21.7 percent), fatigue (20.6 percent), stomach ...

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting ...

It is true that on average children have milder COVID-19 infections and develop long COVID less commonly than adults. However, milder does not mean mild, and less common does not mean uncommon.

About 1% of U.S. children – equivalent to roughly 1 million – have had long COVID, according to CDC data. Research also shows that vaccination may reduce the risk of long COVID in children.

While children are less likely to have serious infection than in adults, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting that "most children with COVID-19 have mild symptoms or have no ...

Co-author Larisa Hockey, of Long Covid Kids New Zealand, said the findings showed Covid-19 had had a "measurable and ongoing impact" on the health of many children.