The Children Left Behind by Long Covid

As the world pretends the pandemic is over, at least a half-million children in the U.S. are struggling with the mysterious disease.

...“I’m trying to stay optimistic,” he says when the doctors inform him he’s got all the signs of long Covid. They’re telling him this in March, and if he wants to get better he needs to take it easy. That means no basketball for a while. Lincoln hates hearing this. Still, they start hatching a plan—something none of the other doctors he’s seen have been able to offer. It’s too late for what would have been his freshman season of high school, but they’re hopeful he’ll be back on the court in time for his sophomore year. “We’ve got you,” says Amy Edwards, a pediatric infectious diseases expert who runs the long-haul Covid clinic at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s hospital in Cleveland...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-04/long-covid-in-kids-has-effects-that-last-beyond-hospital