โWe are no longer seeking to suppress Covid to the lowest possible level. Now we have vaccinations, the restrictions required to suppress Covid could not be justified" @JohnSwinney
Kids are not eligible for #Vaccination. How are they to be protected?
TL;DR
๐~14% of people who catch covid-19 end up with lasting symptoms: ~25 million people worldwide.
๐Could be big underestimate - less than 10% of infections detected - true figure could be nearer 250 million.
๐No universally agreed definition.
๐NIHR divide #LongCovid into 4 groups: those with after-effects of ventilation; those with organ damage caused by #SARSCoV2; those with post-viral fatigue syndrome; miscellaneous group that the authors call those with long-term covid syndrome.
๐One puzzling feature: those most prone to long covid aren't those most likely to get sick from the initial infection.
๐women 30% more likely to get it than men
๐35 to 69-year-olds are the age group most often affected (ONS)
๐WHO working to agree a clinical case definition.
A sudden onset of:
๐ OCD symptoms and/or severe eating restrictions
๐ Cognitive, behavioural, neurological symptoms (at least 2)
๐ข"Itโs like my child woke up as a
completely different person!"๐ข
#PANS kids display a dramatic personality
change, some #OCD, tics or issues with
food, together with a number of other symptoms
usually following some kind of infection.