⚠️HOLY CRAP—11% of Israeli kids who got #SARSCoV2 now suffer from #LongCovid, says study of parents of 13,864 #COVID19-infected kids ages 3-18. ➡️Worse, they also found #LongCovidKids even among 3.5% of the kids who were **asymptomatic**👀—that’s serious!
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2) More than 200,000 children under 18 have tested positive in Israel, with about half of them asymptomatic, the survey said.
“The meaning of this is that there are currently thousands of children in Israel suffering from long-term effects,” the statement said.
“The meaning of this is that there are currently thousands of children in Israel suffering from long-term effects,” the statement said.
3) “these findings are in themselves distressing and call for further investigations into the effects of the coronavirus period on the cognitive/mental health situation of children in Israel,” the study said.
4) Health Ministry data released Friday morning showed that more than half of all COVID cases were coming from school-age children, although traditionally children have generally not been affected as badly by the coronavirus.
5) More than 41,000 of the current active cases are among school-age children, and another 108,000 students are in mandatory quarantine due to exposure. Close to 56% of those who tested positive on Sunday were students.
6) Damnit kids do get Covid and do get hospitalized! The long term consequences on our kids cannot be ignored!!
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1401863233288474630
7) Even Indian doctors warned about #DeltaVariant on kids during its horrible wave. We didn’t heed their advice and warnings! Shame on Boris.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1403132988255318021
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