Post COVID-19 Condition in Children and Adolescents: An Emerging Problem, 2022, Izquierdo-Pujol et al

[Sly Saint]

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection became a pandemic in 2020 and by March 2022 had caused more than 479 million infections and 6 million deaths worldwide. Several acute and long-term symptoms have been reported in infected adults, but it remains unclear whether children/adolescents also experience persistent sequelae.

Hence, we conducted a review of symptoms and pathophysiology associated with post-coronavirus disease 2019 (post-COVID-19) condition in children and adolescents. We reviewed the scientific literature for reports on persistent COVID-19 symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in both children/adolescents and adults from 1 January 2020 to 31 March 2022 (based on their originality and relevance to the broad scope of this review, 26 reports were included, 8 focused on adults and 18 on children/adolescents).

Persistent sequelae of COVID-19 are less common in children/adolescents than in adults, possibly owing to a lower frequency of SARS-CoV-2 infection and to the lower impact of the infection itself in this age group.

However, cumulative evidence has shown prolonged COVID-19 to be a clinical entity, with few pathophysiological associations at present. The most common post-COVID-19 symptoms in children/adolescents are fatigue, lack of concentration, and muscle pain. In addition, we found evidence of pathophysiology associated with fatigue and/or headache, persistent loss of smell and cough, and neurological and/or cardiovascular symptoms.

This review highlights the importance of unraveling why SARS-CoV-2 infection may cause post-COVID-19 condition and how persistent symptoms might affect the physical, social, and psychological well-being of young people in the future.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.894204/full

 

[rvallee]

Persistent sequelae of COVID-19 are less common in children/adolescents than in adults, possibly owing to a lower frequency of SARS-CoV-2 infection

"Don't test children, it's harmless to them, they're probably not even contagious"

"There is no evidence of a large number of infections in children"

"Children possibly are less infected than adults, explaining this"

This is exactly like the "there are no reports of harm from GET" to reports of harm from GET. Refusing to count something based on a belief that it's not significant leads to it... being found not significant by not having counted it. What an incredibly dysfunctional nightmare.

Anyone paying attention can clearly see how often schools got closed, how entire classrooms were missing at times because all the students were out sick. But they weren't tested so now that information is impossible to retrieve, a product of terrible decision-making. And they weren't tested because of assertions from medical professionals that 1) children don't get infected (uh?), 2) they are not contagious and 3) infectious diseases never cause problems in children. Somehow. No, instead the belief that fear of disease is worse than disease made medicine literally engage in a mass infection policy. Absurd systemic failure.

I am getting more and more alarmed at the scientific illiteracy in medicine and it explains so much. Entire avenues of research are closed off by a combination of poor decisions, and the consequences of having made poor decisions. There is something clearly wrong with medical training that this is almost universal to the profession, right along an infallible certainty in the exact opposite.