good morning. really interesting hearing those stories and inevitably now as we are further in the pandemic, more are coming out, but how do you feel now about the vaccine being offered to this lower age group between five and 11. what difference will it make. i age group between five and11. what difference will it make. difference will it make. i think it will make a difference will it make. i think it will make a huge difference will it make. i think it will make a huge difference i difference will it make. i think it will make a huge difference and| difference will it make. i think it i will make a huge difference and as a clinician will make a huge difference and as a clinician who has been vaccinating through clinician who has been vaccinating through the pandemic i welcomed the news that through the pandemic i welcomed the news that all children from five to 11 news that all children from five to it will news that all children from five to it will be news that all chi
symptoms are debilitating. a respiratory consultant, her daughter has been respiratory consultant, her daughter has been wheelchair bound. 117,000 has been wheelchair bound.117,000 children has been wheelchair bound.117,000 children are has been wheelchair bound.117,000 children are suffering with lung covid children are suffering with lung covid at children are suffering with lung covid at the moment and we need to be able covid at the moment and we need to be able to covid at the moment and we need to be able to see how we can safeguard those be able to see how we can safeguard those children as much as possible and the those children as much as possible and the other conditions we are seeing and the other conditions we are seeing that we are not talking enough seeing that we are not talking enough about, paediatric onset of neuropsychiatric syndrome, which is an infection neuropsychiatric syndrome, which is an infection induced neurological symptom an infecti
hour as new research shows that children who become ill with coronavirus are unlikely to suffer with long term effects. scientists at king s college london, found illness from covid lasted, on average, no more than a week in people aged between five and 17. they describe the findings as reassuring. emma duncan is a professor of clinical endocrinology at king s college london who worked on the research. i spoke to her a little earlier. what we were able to do through the king s college london covid symptom study in collaboration with zoe is look at the quarter of a million children who were proxy reported through the app. about 75,000 of them were tested for sars cov 2. about 10%, just under 7000, were positive. we could look at those children s
with me now is dr michael absoud, a consultant in paediatric neurodisability at evelina london children s hospital and a senior author of the study. good to have you with this doctor. can you give us a sense of the fieldwork that you did, where you got your data from. fieldwork that you did, where you got your data from. yes, so this was art of got your data from. yes, so this was part of the got your data from. yes, so this was part of the covid-19 got your data from. yes, so this was part of the covid-19 symptom i got your data from. yes, so this was part of the covid-19 symptom app i part of the covid 19 symptom app that many people know. there is over 4 million people registered on the app. we had over a quarter million families, where 75,000 parents had the children tested for covid 19. eventually, we had a cohort of over 1700 children who had tested positive. we compared that you what
jon ironmonger, bbc news. the oxford coronavirus vaccine co creator, professor dame sarah gilbert, has been honoured with a barbie doll, from the toy company mattel. vaccinologist dame sarah began designing a coronavirus vaccine in early 2020. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine is now the most widely used around the world, with doses sent to more than 170 countries. ramzan karmali reports. a barbie doll with a difference. this one is modelled on the scientist professor dame sarah gilbert. she s the co designer of the oxford coronavirus vaccine. although she finds the concept of a barbie doll created in her likeness strange, she hopes it will inspire girls to think about a career in science. i hope that my barbie doll, as well as others of women who work in science and medicine willjust keep reminding them there are many careers open to them, so when they are playing they re also thinking about what they might like to do in the future.