LCK In The News

Many thousands of children now have Long Covid and have been suffering debilitating symptoms for weeks, months, even years.
‘Life is unrecognisable to how it was before for Jasmin,’ Dr Binita Kane tells Metro.co.uk. ‘Having a sick child becomes a full-time job,’ she says. 'And this is something we’re not talking about'

5 News has been investigating long covid in children - headaches, anxiety, extreme tiredness, worse. It can be extremely debilitating - and the effect on their development, and their education, can be profound.
"I don't want to be the ill kid... I want to be like how I was"

'Now a prominent voice for children suffering from long covid, Anna’s mother Helen Goss is campaigning to ensure good air quality in schools to reduce the risk of transmission among pupils'

“The risk of voluntarily putting children through this, when we don’t fully understand it and the problems might not be manifest for years, is reckless to say the least,” adds Dr Strain.

"A letter from Long Covid Kids, Zero Covid Scotland, Clean Air for Class and Better Indoors cited record numbers of positive cases among pupils this term.

And they claim that Scotland is falling behind school safety standards set by the World Health Organisation"