{"id":5658,"date":"2024-01-02T19:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2024-01-02T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:43:58","slug":"heres-how-common-long-covid-is-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/02\/heres-how-common-long-covid-is-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Common Long COVID Is in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/longcovid\/108084\">MedPageToday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six to 12 months after COVID-19 infection, very few children developed post-COVID-19 conditions (PCCs) as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), a prospective Canadian study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 6 months after being tested for SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric emergency departments (EDs), just 0.52% of children who tested positive had symptoms and changes in quality of life consistent with PCCs, as compared with 0.10% of those testing negative (<em>P<\/em>=0.02). At 12 months, these rates rose to 0.67% and 0.16%, respectively (<em>P<\/em>=0.02).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, quality of life did not differ between the two groups, Stephen Freedman, MDCM, MSc, from Alberta Children&#8217;s Hospital Research Institute in Calgary, and colleagues reported in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2023.49613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>opens in a new tab or window<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our team was surprised by the near identical findings regarding the frequency of the PCCs between study groups,&#8221; Freedman told\u00a0<em>MedPage Today<\/em>. &#8220;Although [PCCs] were slightly more common among children who were infected by SARS-CoV-2, the fact that quality of life did not differ speaks to the overall minimal impact that SARS-CoV-2 infection plays in leading to chronic symptoms in children.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/longcovid\/108084\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Six to 12 months after COVID-19 infection, very few children developed post-COVID-19 conditions (PCCs) as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), a prospective Canadian study found. At 6 months after being tested for SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric emergency departments (EDs), just 0.52% of children who tested positive had symptoms and changes in quality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-long-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}