**6/19/22 Update: Added “Covid Vaccine and Children” Section**
I recently created this infographic for some doctors who are part of the Urgency of Normal movement, to put the risk of Covid infection in kids into perspective.
This chart represents what many pediatricians, epidemiologists, and other researchers have known since mid 2020. But science publishing is slow (by design), and the way information disseminates is heavily influenced by algorithm enhancements in search engines and social media platforms. I don’t think it’s controversial to say that the majority of major media coverage of Covid in kids has been inaccurately skewed towards alarmism.
For the past 2 years, I’ve done my best to catalogue any medical or academic research I came across that I found to be helpful in understanding Covid and how Covid affects children. I have done my best to summarize what I consider to be the key points and key findings of the papers. I hope this can serve as a useful repository for accurate, trustworthy research on this subject.
“Long Covid” in Kids: 3 papers, Covid severity in children: 5 papers, SARS-COV2 Immunity In Children: 2 papers, Covid & Schools: 4 papers, Covid & Kids Sports: 2 papers.
You can find my previous posts with interactive pediatric Covid data here and here.
“Long Covid” in Kids
Long COVID symptoms and duration in SARS-CoV-2 positive children — a nationwide cohort study
“Children in the control group experienced significantly more concentration difficulties, headache, muscle and joint pain, cough, nausea, diarrhea and fever than SARS-CoV-2 infected. In most children ‘long COVID’ symptoms resolved within 1–5 months.”
“Participants with SARS-CoV-2-positive tests had more long-lasting symptoms and sick leave, whereas participants in the control group had more short-lasting symptoms and worse quality of life.”
Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic UK school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2
“Although COVID-19 in children is usually of short duration with low symptom burden, some children with COVID-19 experience prolonged illness duration. Reassuringly, symptom burden in these children did not increase with time, and most recovered by day 56. Some children who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 also had persistent and burdensome illness. A holistic approach for all children with persistent illness during the pandemic is appropriate.”
Covid Severity in Kids
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