LCK In The News

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.

Singing and recording an anthem written for the Coronation of King Charles III is enabling people living with Long COVID to combat isolation and feel part of the celebrations, the director of a ‘wellbeing choir’ has said.
Merel van der Knoop, musical director of the Long Covid Choir, said more than half the 200 members of her online choir have been left housebound because of the condition.
Van der Knoop said that the initiative gave members of her choir a way to join in with the festivities and feel connected to the rest of the UK.

Eight-year-old Jake O’Connell has been left “exhausted and unable to do the things that he once loved” after his diagnosis of long COVID.
His father Paul O’Connell said: “He's gone from the first instance with mild symptoms – he recovered but wasn't 100% – to the second time he got it, his symptoms increased dramatically.”

Renowned art curator Ekow Eshun has been appointed to oversee the co-creation of a modern tapestry for the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that will capture the experiences and emotions of people across the UK during the pandemic. Ekow will curate the tapestry, which will feature panels produced by different artists over the coming months. The Inquiry is working with a range of organisations and individuals across the UK to identify stories to inspire each panel.