LCK In The News

"Although children are relatively less likely to become infected, transmit the virus and be hospitalised, the key question is whether even mild or asymptomatic infection can lead to long Covid in children, said Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London.

“The answer is that it certainly can, and the long Covid support groups contain a not insignificant number of children and teens,” Altmann said."

"A SERIOUS picture is emerging about the long-term health effects of Covid-19 in some children, with UK politicians calling the lack of acknowledgment of the problem a “national scandal”."

"The advocacy group Long COVID Kids now has more than 1,700 children as members, and it is growing fast. If we are to assess risk on behalf of children, surely we need to know the prevalence of Long COVID in them and whether it has any detrimental impact on their long-term health?

There are some politicians and scientists who dismiss Long COVID as post-viral malaise, but multiple studies have detected raised biomarkers and conditions such as thrombotic microangiopathy in children, neuro invasion in adults, and disruption of the immune, mitochondrial and cellular processes that, along with many other concerning characteristics, distinguish COVID-19 from influenza and its endemic coronavirus cousins."

"PARENTS HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING to obtain help and support, watching their children with persistent symptoms following acute infection with COVID-19. Early on in the pandemic, parents and children felt they were disbelieved by their general practitioners (GPs) as they witnessed an emerging phenomenon."

"About one in ten people with Covid continue to experience symptoms after 12 weeks. There are some who have been experiencing symptoms for almost a year – many unable to work, others, even children, having to use a wheelchair. We’ve been out to meet families wondering when, and if, they or their loved ones will ever get better."