Category: Long-haul & Children

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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Hannah E. Davis, , Lisa McCorkell, Julia Moore Vogel, Eric J. Topol Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 21, pages133–146 (2023)Cite this article Abstract Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. More than 200 symptoms have been identified with impacts on multiple organ systems. At least 65 million individuals […]

US Survey: About 7% of Adults, 1% of Children Have Had Long COVID

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Emily Harris, JAMA. 2023;330(16):1516. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.19208 Medical News in Brief October 2023 JAMA Network More than 3% of US adults had post–COVID-19 condition, or long COVID, at the time of a 2022 National Health Interview Survey, and about 7% reported ever having had the condition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced. A similar trend held for children, […]

Adverse effects of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: the spike hypothesis

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Published:April 20, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2022.04.0 Authors: oannis P. Trougakos Evangelos Terpos Harry Alexopoulos Efstathios Kastritis Evangelos Andreakos Meletios A. Dimopoulos Highlights Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccines induce robust immune responses against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), yet their cellular/molecular mode of action and the etiology of the induced adverse events (AEs) remain elusive. Lipid […]

Who’ll Get Long COVID? Just a Look at a Patient Gives Clues

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Authors: Dennis Thompson Jul 19, 2022 The Indiana Gazette ometimes just looking at a person can give clues to their likelihood of developing long COVID after a bout with the virus. For example, obese people are five times more likely to suffer long COVID symptoms that persist at least three months after their infection clears, a major new […]

The CDC Is Breaking Trust in Childhood Vaccination

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With its unscientific push to vaccinate all infants and toddlers against COVID, the agency will harm vaccine uptake for more significant diseases Authors: LESLIE BIENEN, TRACY BETH HØEG JULY 05, 2022 Tablet On June 18, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for all children between the ages […]

Diabetes may increase long COVID risk; COVID while pregnant linked to baby brain development issues

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Authors: Nancy Lapid Thu, June 9, 2022, The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Diabetes may increase the risk of long COVID, new analyses of seven previous studies suggest. Researchers […]

Association of Prior BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccination With Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents During Omicron Predominance

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Authors: Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra, MD1; Amadea Britton, MD1,2; Nong Shang, PhD1; et al May 13, 2022 JAMA. Published online May 13, 2022. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.7493 Key Points Question  Does the estimated effectiveness of 2 doses of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection (based on the odds ratio for the association of prior vaccination and infection) wane rapidly among children and adolescents, as has been […]

Children get long Covid, too, and it can show up in unexpected ways

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Authors: Jen Christensen, Fri May 6, 2022 CNN November 10 is a day Kim Ford remembers too well. It was the day last year when her 9-year-old son, Jack, was scheduled to get his Covid-19 vaccine at the school clinic. They were excited that he’d finally have some protection, but on November 9, he had […]

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Children Ages 12-17: A Stratified National Database Analysis

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Authors: RALPH TURCHIANO   SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 •  Abstract Establishing the rate of post-vaccination cardiac myocarditis in the 12-15 and 16-17-year-old population in the context of their COVID-19 hospitalization risk is critical for developing a vaccination recommendation framework that balances harms with benefits for this patient demographic. Design, Setting and Participants: Using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting […]

Spotting Long COVID Symptoms in Children

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Authors: Katie Sweeney Published on November 17, 2021 Categories: COVID-19, Hospital Programs It’s one of the more mysterious aspects of COVID-19—a condition called long COVID. While most people recover from the virus within two to four weeks, others can struggle for months afterward with lingering, often debilitating symptoms. Long COVID has been most commonly talked about in adults, but children […]