Long COVID is debilitating children. Doctors worry there aren’t enough centers to treat them
Story by Elizabeth Hlavinka, August 29, 2023

"When 11-year-old Jack Coviello contracted COVID-19 in January 2022, his worst symptom was a sore throat that kept him out of school for a week. A couple of days later, graver symptoms started to appear: gastrointestinal issues, tachycardia, panic attacks, and extreme fatigue that kept him sleeping 20 hours a day.

"It would be a full month of running tests in which doctors continued to say Jack was 'fine,' until his pediatrician diagnosed him with post-COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID, and referred him to a specialized clinic, said his mother, Kelli Coviello, who is a principal's assistant at an elementary school in Massachusetts.

"'It's been a challenge of them not really, truly understanding,' Coviello told Salon in a phone interview. "They think it's just school avoidance, and he doesn't want to come in or maybe it's just anxiety, and all this other stuff. … But he's an 11-year-old boy, who is looking at you saying, 'Am I dying? What's happening to me?'"

"Jack is one of thousands of children that has been diagnosed with long COVID. Last month, the National Institutes of Health updated its considerations for long COVID to say the burden of the condition in children "may be quite large." Studies estimating its prevalence in pediatric populations are limited and conflicting, estimating up to 25% of children infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus could go on to develop long COVID, though it's more likely between 2% and 10%. Older children with existing chronic diseases or who had a more severe COVID-19 infection have an increased risk.

"As COVID cases rise again and new variants emerge, coupled with school starting up again, previous waves indicate that long COVID cases could spike along with hospitalizations and deaths. Though kids generally have milder infections, they aren't always spared from the worst outcomes of infection.

"However, evidence suggests long COVID is underestimated in adults, and the same is likely true for children. Plus, some providers still don't know much about long COVID, which may delay diagnoses, said Dr. Alexandra Yonts, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the Pediatric Post-COVID program at Children's National Hospital.

"'I've heard from a lot of our families that they had to go to multiple different doctors to even find someone that believed what their child was experiencing was true,' Yonts told Salon in a phone interview."

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I feel entirely broken today.

My heart hurts, my ribs ache, my intestines hate me, that migraine is sticking around for the fourth day, I can't breathe, my fingers are numb, and the brain fog is less a fog and more a blizzard laying thick cognitive distress inches deep on the landscape of my neurons.

Guess I'm just gonna keep moving forward...

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Fuck it, I'm contacting the UPMC Post-COVID clinic tomorrow. The BINGO card is mostly full

Anyone currently seeing them? Thoughts/Suggestions?

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I played cards with my family last night: a rare treat. It lightened the mood. Also I usually win at cards and I was declared president for all but the last hand, where BB card shark gleefully took my title away from me.

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Anyone experiencing the cold and heat differently now? Does it register at all? Somewhat? Are there body parts/areas more or less sensitive? Are the sensations new or slightly changed compared to before you got sick? Is it difficult to tell between feeling temperatures or other sensations and feeling sick? Flare in symptoms? Just wondering. #LongCovid #LongHaul #LongHauler #LongHaulCovid