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"This is a completely new disease, there are no text books, nothing that you can look up."

New research claims that children who become ill with Covid-19 are unlikely to have long-term effects. Scientists at Kings College London found illness lasted no more than a week on average for those aged between 5 and 17. Less than two-percent showed symptoms lasting more than eight weeks. But Daniel Munblit - a paediatric allergist - thinks its too early to draw any conclusions from a study like this yet:

Date Time Long COVID research receives funding boost to advance treatment and diagnostics Imperial academics have received funding from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to support new research into long COVID. Three Imperial projects are among 15 UK-based studies to be backed by £19.6 million in government funding through the NIHR. The research programmes will help to better understand long COVID, improve diagnosis and find new treatments for the condition. Long COVID can have ...

Study investigates long-term sequelae of COVID-19 in hospitalized children Researchers from ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium) pediatric Long Covid working group in the UK, Sechenov University and Z.A. Bashlyaeva Childrens Municipal Clinical Hospital in Russia ran the largest study to date on children hospitalized with COVID-19. The study aimed to discover what the long-term effects are on children and adolescents who have been hospitalized with co...

Children who are hospitalised with coronavirus may be at risk of persistent fatigue and other symptoms of long Covid, according to researchers who examined the health of patients months after they were discharged. Scientists interviewed the parents of more than 500 children who were admitted to a Moscow hospital with Covid between April and August last year. They found that a quarter had ongoing symptoms more than five months after returning...