LCK In The News

"Charles Francoeur, 13 ans, a attrapé la COVID-19 en octobre 2020. Comme la plupart des enfants, il a été relativement peu malade pendant son infection : deux ou trois jours de fièvre et de fatigue. Il a ensuite respecté les 10 jours d’isolement prescrits avant de reprendre le chemin de l’école. C’est là que ça s’est gâté.

Il est rentré à la maison et ça m'a frappée, il était blanc comme un drap, en sueur, il se tenait à la poitrine et disait : "Maman, mon coeur fait mal", se souvient sa mère, Sophie Lahaie."

“All three of (the children) appeared to be recovering at first but then Eva started running high fevers every two weeks, up to 39 degrees," she says.

“She’d get red cheeks, terrible stomach ache and her eyes would be really bloodshot and itchy. She’d get rashes all the time in different places.”

"Recently published data from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that among children who have survived COVID-19, 13 percent of those 11 years or younger and about 15 percent of those aged 12 to 16 are suffering the effects of Post-acute COVID-19 (“Long COVID”) and report at least one symptom five weeks after a confirmed COVID-19 infection."

"A mother battling for her toddler to be recognised as one of the youngest victims of Long Covid can “breathe a sigh of relief” now a study has tracked the long-term neurological damage caused by the condition.

Mel Duvall, 36, two-year-old daughter Emily was hospitalised with the coronavirus in April 2020. The toddler from Cornwall has experienced a series of devastating health problems since she caught the illness, including sepsis, peritonitis and a burst appendix."

"Frances Simpson’s 10-year-old daughter Saskia and six-year-old son Magnus are still feeling the effects of what they believe must have been coronavirus a year on from catching the disease.

They have suffered a plethora of symptoms, some severe and debilitating.

The family’s experiences have led Frances, a lecturer in psychology at Coventry University Group Scarborough, to co-found support and campaign group Long Covid Kids...

“I want people to be aware that this is a possibility,” she said. “There are some really brilliant doctors and increasingly, because people are seeing children with long Covid now, there is increasing curiosity around it."

“There are people who want to find out more, but there are some who want to close it down.”