Long Covid is rapidly becoming one of the biggest chronic illnesses in children and young people in the UK.
In some countries, it's now overtaken asthma as the most prevalent chronic condition in childhood.
This has happened in just over five years.🧵
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In some countries, it's now overtaken asthma as the most prevalent chronic condition in childhood.
This has happened in just over five years.🧵
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It's absolutely astonishing that our children are knowingly being exposed to a dangerous virus, that they're allowed to become repeatedly infected, that so many are suffering and that almost nothing is being done to prevent it.
It's absolutely astonishing that our children are knowingly being exposed to a dangerous virus, that they're allowed to become repeatedly infected, that so many are suffering and that almost nothing is being done to prevent it.
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There are unprecedented numbers of children left very ill by Covid and/or developing new onset health conditions post Covid.
They're finding their previously robust immune systems being changed and not working as they should.
There are unprecedented numbers of children left very ill by Covid and/or developing new onset health conditions post Covid.
They're finding their previously robust immune systems being changed and not working as they should.
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Previously healthy young children are now living with chronic fatigue.
Previously fit & active children are wiped out with post exertional malaise.
Previously fit young people now with depleted energy.
Children with dysfunctional breathing.
Children with dystautonomia.
Previously healthy young children are now living with chronic fatigue.
Previously fit & active children are wiped out with post exertional malaise.
Previously fit young people now with depleted energy.
Children with dysfunctional breathing.
Children with dystautonomia.
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Children developing cardiological, neurological and muscular skeletal issues.
Children experiencing mental health difficulties.
Children unable to attend school regularly, unable to take part in the sports they loved or to live the life they previously lived.
Children developing cardiological, neurological and muscular skeletal issues.
Children experiencing mental health difficulties.
Children unable to attend school regularly, unable to take part in the sports they loved or to live the life they previously lived.
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Children feeling persistent ill, unable to shake off colds, tummy bugs and chest infections.
Children with changed behaviour and temperament.
Children becoming disabled.
Children becoming housebound.
Children feeling persistent ill, unable to shake off colds, tummy bugs and chest infections.
Children with changed behaviour and temperament.
Children becoming disabled.
Children becoming housebound.
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The cost, on an individual human level, and to societies, both now and in the future, is incalculable.
How can politicians sit back and watch this happen?
How can they know these facts and choose to do nothing?
The cost, on an individual human level, and to societies, both now and in the future, is incalculable.
How can politicians sit back and watch this happen?
How can they know these facts and choose to do nothing?
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They said Covid was "just like having a cold".
They said it was "not harmful to children".
Our former Prime Minister said the risk of children suffering badly from it was "very, very, very, very, very small indeed..."
They said Covid was "just like having a cold".
They said it was "not harmful to children".
Our former Prime Minister said the risk of children suffering badly from it was "very, very, very, very, very small indeed..."
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They even said that children were "more likely to be hit by a bus on the way to school than catch Covid in a classroom".
They were wrong on all counts.
They even said that children were "more likely to be hit by a bus on the way to school than catch Covid in a classroom".
They were wrong on all counts.
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If this many children were being hit by buses, we'd surely be rethinking our whole approach to road safety by now, wouldn't we?
Or perhaps we'd just tell ourselves that being hit by a bus wasn't harmful at all...
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If this many children were being hit by buses, we'd surely be rethinking our whole approach to road safety by now, wouldn't we?
Or perhaps we'd just tell ourselves that being hit by a bus wasn't harmful at all...
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