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Four years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors and researchers are still seeking ways to help patients with long Covid, the persistent and often debilitating symptoms that can continue long after a Covid-19 infection...
In adults, the most common long Covid symptoms include fatigue and brain fog, but for children the condition can look different..
While vast sums have been devoted to long Covid researchthe US National Institutes of Health have spent more than a billion dollars on research projects and clinical trialsresearch into children with the condition has been predominantly limited to online surveys, calls with parents, and studies of electronic health records..
Now, whats believed to be the first clinical trial specifically aimed at children and young adults with long Covid is underway, recruiting subjects aged 7 to 21 on which to test a potential treatment..
In May 2021, Lael Yonker, a pediatric pulmonologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, published a study of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which she says is now regarded as a more severe and acute version of long Covid..
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