An early study claiming that the risk of long COVID in kids is "strikingly low" has been retracted. New research shows that 10-20% of kids, or about 6 million in the U.S., have long COVID symptoms after infection. www.scientificamerican.com/article/long...
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants
And who knows what the long term consequences are going to be. Multiple sclerosis is a devastating neurological disease that they are now finding may be due to mono infection in childhood
I tutor three students remotely, and they've all been notably less lively since getting covid. And their immune systems are destroyed. At least one of them is hacking and sneezing every single week.
These numbers are the lowest they will ever be! These are low estimates and it will only get worse given no one is doing anything.