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LCK In The News

October 20 2021

FORTUNE

Long COVID in kids is worrying the experts: ‘It affects everybody differently and at different timescales

“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.

September 30, 2021

THE PRESS & JOURNAL

Parent groups demand ‘immediate action’ to protect schoolchildren from Covid

"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"

August 22, 2021

The Sunday Post

Despite first minister’s advice and extra millions, some councils fail to buy air monitors to test classrooms

'Government advice to introduce measures to secure good ventilation in classrooms and protect children have been ignored by some Scots councils'

August 10, 2021

THE GUARDIAN

‘What is happening to me?’ The teenagers trying to make sense of long Covid

"More than 100,000 Britons under 25 have endured months of debilitating symptoms, while doctors struggle to help and others fail to take them seriously. Four young people describe what it’s like"

July 30th, 2021

SCIENCE BASED MEDICINE

Cognitive Illusions and How Not to Write About COVID-19 and Children

"Many people minimize the deaths and damage COVID-19 has wrought on children because it is “worse in adults”. While it is true that more adults suffer due to the disease, that does not make the harms done to children vanish in a puff of smoke."

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