Thread by @DrEricDing

📍KIDS #LongCovid is REAL—“15% of the children who come to us trained in various sports (for 3-4 hours a day, 6 days a week)—but after #COVID19 they **can’t even walk for 5 minutes**!” Do not listen to those who callously dismiss low death/hospital risk.
haaretz.com/israel-news/th…

2) At the “long COVID” clinic at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva, about 150 children are being treated, but several hundred more are on a waiting list. “Demand is high and the wait is more than half a year, because we monitor & test everything for each patient”

3) “What’s interesting, is that in some of the children, it really appears as a direct continuation of severe illness but in very many of the children, there is a severe illness, followed by a lull of several months and only then do the symptoms of long COVID begin,"

4) However, unlike Israel, many countries like UK 🇬🇧 are simply trying to ignore #longcovid in kids as much as they can… slashing eligible symptoms to just 3 (versus 13 symptoms by the CDC)

https://twitter.com/LongCovidKids/status/1438022679940960259

5) The organ damage from #LongCovid, even if we survive, could be severe. Very severe and long lasting.

https://twitter.com/laurie_garrett/status/1448761313203834883

6) and a lot of kids have died and continue to die every week. Don’t just say kids lower risk than elderly vaccinated adults…. Kids are kids!!! Kids have 70-80 years of life ahead of them — they aren’t supposed to die in grade school!

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1441377423950557184