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Long COVID and kids: scientists race to find answers

Children get long COVID too, but researchers are still working to determine how frequently and how severely.
  1. Dyani Lewis

    1. Dyani Lewis is a freelance science journalist in Melbourne, Australia.

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As COVID-19 has ripped through communities, children have often been spared the worst of the disease’s impacts. But the spectre of long COVID developing in children is forcing researchers to reconsider the cost of the pandemic for younger people.

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Nature 595, 482-483 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01935-7

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