And if we look at how they impacted the lives of those reporting these persistent symptoms. 2/3rds reported impact on their ability to carry out day to day activities. 
These estimates are broadly in line with recent ONS self-reported estimates in this age groups and the CLoCk study. There is a lot of uncertainty around long COVID, but the evidence suggests that it does impact children & the impact is non-trivial.
The impact on staff is also shocking. Education staff consistently come up on the ONS data as one of the groups with the highest prevalence of long COVID by population after health and social care workers.
Unfortunately, the current situation- which is resulting in mass infection of both children & staff will likely have huge long term impacts on their health, and on the wider community as infection spreads onwards. It's a tragedy and a scandal that our govt has enabled this.
And some in the scientific community have been complicit by opposing even the most basic mitigations in schools, and vaccination of children.
Deleted earlier tweet to clarify- the duration data doesn't seem separated out by age, but it doesn't seem like there's a rapid drop off after 4wks. Rather symptoms in most people tend to persist even up to 6 months with a gradual decline in numbers affected.
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