- A JAMA Pediatrics study that claimed a “strikingly low” incidence of Long COVID in children was recently retracted. Pulled for “coding errors,” the 2023 study was widely cited by the media to erroneously downplay the risk of the disease in children. We now know the disease affects about six million kids in the United States. Still, critics of the study say there were numerous flaws not addressed in the retraction letter, including the authors “inventing” their own definition of Long COVID.
- A new study in The American Journal of Medicine found that people with Long COVID who experience internal tremors may have a more “severe” phenotype of the disease. The authors noted that tremors — which are a common symptom of Long COVID — correlated with worse health status, higher rates of financial difficulties and housing insecurity, and higher rates of new-onset conditions of mast cell disorders and neurologic conditions.
- The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) RECOVER program published a new study on what Long COVID looks like in children, based on the most common symptoms in 5,300 study participants. They found that symptom patterns were similar but distinguishable between school-age children and adolescents. “[Long COVID] is a public health crisis for children,” the study’s lead author, Rachel Gross, told Salon.
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