— Andrew NikiforukA 2024 JAMA study challenged the “misperception” that long COVID is rare in children or resembles that of adults. It reviewed the health outcomes of thousands of children aged between six and 17, both infected and uninfected. It found 10 to 15 per cent of children and adolescents developed long COVID after one infection, a rate similar to that of adults.
Replicated under Fair Use from This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough by Andrew Nikiforuk.