Children get long-term symptoms from short-term COVID infections. I want to open up as much as anyone but it's grossly irresponsible and selfish to be planning this based on a base adult vaccination rate without an active plan in place to protect childrenhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/01/one-in-seven-children-with-covid-still-suffering-three-months-later-study …
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Replying to @wardlejon
Interesting the way this was reported - check out the thread I just shared from a pediatrician in the UK. He makes the point a lot of symptoms are associated with many other respiratory viruses as well which children are at risk of.
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Replying to @ellyhowse
I don't find them reassuring. Tiredness & headache may be 'common' but are also *more* common in infected at similar increased level of other post-infectious sequalae studies. The reason for the symptoms being "common" is artefact of ease of measurement
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Replying to @wardlejon @ellyhowse
Yes, I think that thread was pretty misleading. I agree that the study is very biased, and potentially overestimates the rates of issues, but if these WERE the real rates they'd be extremely worryingpic.twitter.com/H6G5GfBWfy
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Replying to @GidMK @wardlejon
I reckon it raises the fact there is still a lot we don’t know & the lack of clear diagnostic criteria around long covid esp in kids makes it even harder, right?
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Replying to @ellyhowse @wardlejon
Absolutely, and I don't think that, for e.g., 13% of all kids who get COVID will go on to have long-term SoB. That being said, if these numbers were accurate, they'd be extremely worrying regardless of how common the symptoms are generally
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Replying to @GidMK @ellyhowse
long-term shortness of breath though is a known long-term (years) side effect of SARS infection, and some adult long-COVID reporting ongoing issues. Definitely too early to think it will be ongoing issue for children, but also too early to dismiss it as some are trying to do!
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My reading of the way people are interpreting this study is "we thought it would be catastrophic for kids, and it turns out it's only terrible for them, so no problem at all!". Not sure that's the approach I'd take
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I don't think you can easily conclude much from the study - it's a biased sample with huge dropout rates and pretty clear issues in terms of response bias - but to say "well those rates aren't high" also makes no sense to me
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