Long COVID Affects Millions of Children
This article was published with The Sick Times, a nonprofit newsroom covering long COVID.
Justin Lin's daughter, Serena, developed long COVID in 7th grade.
For more than three years, she has experienced postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — causing rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and cognitive dysfunction as well as post-exertional malaise (PEM). The latter causes debilitating crashes after minimal physical, cognitive or emotional exertion, which forced her to switch to online school. With no approved pediatric treatments, Lin wonders whether Serena will be able to attend college.
As a community representative for the U.S.National Institutes of Health's long COVID clinical trials initiative, called RECOVER-Treating long COVID (RECOVER-TLC), Lin is providing input for the largest pediatric long COVID trial to date. He hopes the trial will inspire more large-scale, well-designed studies for kids.
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