Long COVID Not Prevalent in Children: Swiss Study

Long COVID Not Prevalent in Children: Swiss Study
Children shake hands with pupils of the Ecole Vivalys elementary school, wearing spacesuits costumes, as they leave school during their project Mission to Mars in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 17, 2021. Stefan Wermuth/AFP via Getty Images
Meiling Lee
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Symptoms of long COVID aren’t common in children, according to a Swiss study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on July 15.

Long COVID, also known as long-haul COVID or post-acute COVID-19, is a condition in which people experience ongoing or new symptoms four or more weeks after first being infected with the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. The condition may occur in people who have had severe or mild COVID-19 illness or after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.