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Indiana has been unwell since an infection in March 2023. She told the Express that while her symptoms have died down, the fatigue she suffers still continues and long Covid continues to impact her education.

Less than six months after recovering from the infection in September 2021 — which caused fever, severe chest pain and fatigue — Samir was confined to a wheelchair with long Covid symptoms.
‘I don’t remember a day without pain,’ Samir, 13, told Good Health in a voice heavy with fatigue.
The newspaper reports that while Britain led the world in developing vaccines and treatment for acute Covid, it seems research into long Covid has been left behind.

'Rosie has not given up and is fighting for young people to be heard'

Her symptoms include muscle and joint pain, shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction, hair loss, appalling insomnia, overwhelming exhaustion which is not fixed by sleep, tachycardia and dizziness. They continue to flare up and there is no real improvement 20 months post Covid.

The BBC report recent study findings, that there was a 14% rise in childhood Type 1 diabetes during the first year of the pandemic and in the second year of Covid, the rate was up about 27% on pre-pandemic levels.
Diabetes UK is urging people to look out for the symptoms of type 1 diabetes: tiredness, thirst, needing to go to the toilet to urinate more often, and weight loss or increasing thinness - collectively known as the four Ts.

Thousands of children are missing school because of it, Christine Miles reports.
“We were actually told that if we were breathing, we didn’t need medical attention. There weren’t any guidelines then, of course, because long Covid wasn’t an entity.” Sammie McFarland says. Neither has there been any meaningful help available through the NHS. “The only real support we’ve had is by going private,”
Kate Davies says of her daughter “Bethan suffers from many different symptoms, the most severe of these being the onset of PoTS, severe fatigue, and bad headaches. She suffers daily from joint pain and has memory issues. Covid has also brought on severe food intolerances"
Alexa Edge was 12 when she contracted Covid, in September 2021. She is now 14. For almost a year, she had no contact with her secondary school in London, after previous efforts to attend a few lessons resulted in her completely crashing afterwards.