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Delaney DePue tested positive for COVID-19 in June, shortly after her 15th birthday. DePue, who used to train up to 20 hours a week for dance, suspects her continued fatigue and shortness of breath is related to the coronavirus. (Sara DePue/Kaiser Health News/TNS)
Children’s hospitals grapple with young Covid-19 ‘long haulers’
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News
A slumber party to celebrate Delaney DePue’s 15th birthday last summer marked a new chapter – one defined by illness and uncertainty.
The teen from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, tested positive for Covid-19 about a week later, said her mother, Sara, leaving her bedridden with flu-like symptoms. Her expected recovery, however, never came.
NIH launches research effort to understand MIS-C, other effects of COVID-19 on children
By Stephanie Weaver
Most affected children have had current or recent coronavirus infections, the CDC said.
LOS ANGELES - It’s a segment of the population that accounts for roughly 13% of the total cases of COVID-19 in the United States: children. Now, the National Institutes of Health is launching a new research effort to better understand how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, affects adolescents, the institute announced Tuesday.
The effort, called the Collaboration to Assess Risk and Identify Long-term Outcomes for Children with COVID (CARING for Children with COVID), develops and funds studies to investigate why some children are at greater risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection than others, why symptoms vary among children who are infected, and how to identify children at risk for severe illness from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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