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Long Covid affects children like Tilly Orange worldwide. Tilly is having tests to see if her organs have been affected by the COVID-19 infection. Specialists say understanding is changing.

"Doctors and scientists admit they have little clue on how to diagnose and treat the thousands of children worldwide who still suffer from coronavirus months after being infected. A study now wants parents to collate and share information to help the medical community understand the impact of the disease. TRT World Health Correspondent, Nicola Hill reports from Kent, UK."

"Lack of research into area means children are being sent away from A&E and parents told they are overanxious...

"It’s emerging that this is an overlooked and special area of people affected by Covid,” he [Michael Rosen] said. “We’ve allowed the common understanding to spread that children don’t get Covid and/or if they get it, they don’t get it bad, and that if they get it, they don’t get long Covid. Clearly, things aren’t that simple and we need more detail and more stats to tell us more.”

"How does long COVID-19 affect the day-to-day lives and well-being of children? In this Special Feature, we spoke to the parents of children and teenagers who have ongoing symptoms of COVID-19."

"Since children appear to be less at risk of severe COVID-19 than adults, those who do develop the disease may not receive as much attention from researchers and the media. Yet some of these children have become “long haulers” who experience symptoms months after they first contracted SARS-CoV-2."

"Children who are hospitalised with coronavirus may be at risk of persistent fatigue and other symptoms of long Covid, according to researchers who examined the health of patients months after they were discharged.

Scientists interviewed the parents of more than 500 children who were admitted to a Moscow hospital with Covid between April and August last year. They found that a quarter had ongoing symptoms more than five months after returning home, with the most common ailments being fatigue, sleep disruption and sensory problems."