Covid is a vascular disease, its transmitted and caught through the air and our lungs but it does more vascular and organ damage. What is happening in teenagers isn't all that different to adults where Long Covid is a complete multisystem assault on the body impacting every organ and the blood itself and the problems extend far beyond just the lung structural changes.
For a while they assumed children were not as impacted but the prevalence numbers now suggest they are impacted by Long Covid at about the same rate as adults. Given our history with these types of diseases and things that look like this, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme unfortunately its likely a lifelong disease.
We badly need a serious worldwide effort to research understanding and treating this disease because at its worst children (and adults) are locked by their bodies in bed, needing darkness and silence unable to chew their own food let alone do anything else. The level of suffering that is currently being ignored is horrific and the doctors have zero tools to help.
For a while they assumed children were not as impacted but the prevalence numbers now suggest they are impacted by Long Covid at about the same rate as adults. Given our history with these types of diseases and things that look like this, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme unfortunately its likely a lifelong disease.
We badly need a serious worldwide effort to research understanding and treating this disease because at its worst children (and adults) are locked by their bodies in bed, needing darkness and silence unable to chew their own food let alone do anything else. The level of suffering that is currently being ignored is horrific and the doctors have zero tools to help.