Thread by @LongCovidKids

1) 🇬🇧 The 8 steps of UK #LongCovid prevalence research in a nutshell - By an upset parent.
1. Child suffers disabling symptoms for over 12 months
2. GP says it is health #anxiety and standard blood tests show nothing wrong, so there can not be anything wrong.
3. #Parent has been

2) using Zoe app, but gives up logging symptoms after x months as they can't see the point anymore. No one believes they are sick anyway
4. Child has disabling symptoms for over 12 months
5. GP says children don't get #longcovid as the @govuk has told them this

3) for the last 18 months. Parent and child both dismissed as "anxious". #Child never sees a #paediatrician as GP dismisses them & paediatricians, therefore, don't see many kids with #longcovid.

4) 6. @TheLancet publishes this data (notably the same journal that published the flawed MMR causes autism data!!)
7. RESULT - Even more people don't believe #longcovid exists, and they put themselves and their children at greater risk of infection thinking

5)it could never happen to them or their child.
8). Good science research shows #Covid damages the #brain, reduces grey matter, reduces IQ, produces early #parkinsons symptoms - mainstream media and government ignore this data and keep cramming unvaccinated kids into

6) unventilated schools without masks.

We wish we could say this frustrated parents experience is unusual but 😢it isn't.

🙏🏼We need clear messaging.
🙏🏼We need prevention.
🙏🏼We need honesty.
🙏🏼We need to #protectthekids #makeschoolssafe #longcovidkids @SafeEdForAll_UK

34,000 under 16 year olds report Long Covid in the UK.
Not exactly ‘rare’ as described in mainstream media yesterday.
34,000 under 16-year-olds report Long Covid in the UK. the 4 wk - 4 July symptoms > 4 wk after the 1st infection.
#longcovidkids
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