14 year gymnast who trained 4 hours a day—now cut down by #LongCovid… now her heart races. Her body aches. She gets winded climbing stairs and feels dizzy when she changes position. Concentrating on schoolwork is difficult & exhausting in person. #COVID19
statnews.com/2021/06/10/as-…
statnews.com/2021/06/10/as-…
2) “Kate learned last month from a team of doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital that she is suffering from the post-Covid syndrome better known as long Covid. An antibody test ordered by her pediatrician confirmed she had been infected with Covid-19.
3) “It’s really difficult,” she said. “As a gymnast, I’ve always pushed through different types of pain and injury. I try to push myself, but with this whole experience, it’s just been too hard.”
4) “She was a completely healthy, active kid and this just totally changed her life,” her mother, Sara Dardis, said. “So obviously, Covid is real and it’s real for kids. It needs to be taken seriously.”
5) Damnit, kids get #LongCovid and can transmit. Fauci agrees too. We cannot keep denying kids don’t get sick
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1401863233288474630
6) 1% hospitalization of kids is too damn high.
https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1401860709538013186
7) Kids transmission heat map…. Kids are always at the leading edge of infection across many countries in recent months. This is the #DeltaVariant in NW England…
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1402056092713168897
9) millions are likely at risk or already suffering from #LongCovid. We need to take it seriously folks.
https://twitter.com/draditinerurkar/status/1403075397789564930
10) #LongCovid is becoming very common. In 🇬🇧 study, it’s 1 in 5 at 5 weeks and 1 in 10 at 10 weeks.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1355640837540032516
11) moreover, if hospitalized, 1 in *3* get readmitted to hospital in just months.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1355637599029899267
12) Because #DeltaVariant seems to be affecting kids, we should be hypervigilant about #LongCovidKids with the rise of Delta worldwide… see thread 🧵
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1403132149243461635
13) These are your lungs 🫁 on #COVID19 and cigarettes…
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1350612168211910663
14) #LongCovid anyone? We don’t want these for ourselves or our kids.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1350618532560707585
15) This lung 🫁 issue is very personal to me too. As a child, due to a tumor, I lost a large section of my right lung that had to be removed along with my baseball⚾️-sized tumor that invaded my lung. It made me pursue epidemiology when I grew up— story: well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/a-w…
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