LCK In The News

Michael Rosen has been announced as the first patron of Long Covid Kids, a charity supporting children and young people suffering from long Covid. The charity's founder, Sammie Mcfarland said: “We are more than delighted to welcome Michael as a champion of Long Covid Kids and as our inaugural patron. His resilience and fighting spirit during the past few years has made him a national treasure and serves as a wonderful inspiration to us all. The Long Covid Kids family look forward to working with him to raise awareness of long Covid in the young, for many years to come.”

Sammie McFarland tells Wales Online that care givers are told that their children are suffering from anxiety and that they "eventually stop trying to go and get support because it is so crushing and so demoralising and emotional, and the detrimental effect on the child and the care giver outweighs any benefit from trying to seek help".

LCK has been collecting data by surveying 382 respondents representing children and young people with suspected and diagnosed Long Covid. The results, which are being analysed by the charity and their partner, the University of Derby, make grim reading for the NHS and for healthcare providers offering treatment to the UK's next generation.

Dr Binita Kane is a Consultant Respiratory Physician in Manchester. She also has a daughter with long covid and knows the challenges that it causes and is worried that Long Covid has been deprioritised.
She is joined by Dr Melissa Heightman, clinical lead for Post Covid services at University College Hospital London.

ITV news coverage of Long Covid in Children.
Tillie and Imani speak to ITV reporter Chloe Keedy to help raise awareness of the condition. Dr Emma Parish discusses the impacts of their symptoms.