Six weeks ago, I heard there were kids getting Covid and not getting better. Like the adults we& #39;ve been hearing about, they were long-haulers. At the time, I couldn& #39;t find a single article about it. So I decided to do it myself #LongCovidKids #longhaulers https://undark.org/2020/09/02/kids-covid-19-long-haulers/">https://undark.org/2020/09/0...
When I reached out to @CenterRes to ask if he knew of anyone studying long-haul in children, he said no, but asked me more about what I was reporting on. When I told him, he said "Oh my God, we should try to capture this." They mobilized and created this:
https://redcap.is.depaul.edu/surveys/?s=AARRAR9JTX&fbclid=IwAR0FdVQDcJosBDtjOgHBjnPV884T8aTL_5uQFqstHlBZAsksXQfagvJCDrw">https://redcap.is.depaul.edu/surveys/...
Epidemiologist with @COVKIDProject @JanelleMMenard said, without better data on these #LongCovidKids, "It& #39;s like trying to be a pilot flying at night with no instrumentation.....If you don& #39;t have solid surveillance data, how can you make good decisions?" https://undark.org/2020/09/02/kids-covid-19-long-haulers/">https://undark.org/2020/09/0...
Microbiologist @microbeminded2 said "Parents should know that every well-studied bacterial or viral pathogen has a chronic syndrome associated with it," while cautioning we simply don& #39;t know yet whether the long-haulers will become life-longers. #LongCovid https://undark.org/2020/09/02/kids-covid-19-long-haulers/">https://undark.org/2020/09/0...
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