A small study is adding to evidence that children can develop long COVID\u002D19 even if the virus did not make them seriously ill.
A small study is adding to evidence that children can develop long COVID-19 even if the virus did not make them seriously ill. Researchers in Texas who tracked 1,813 children infected with the virus between October 2020 and May 2022 – during the waves of the Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants – found that 4.5% had symptoms for up to 12 weeks and 3.3% had symptoms for longer than 12 weeks.
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