A sweeping new study has uncovered a powerful connection between long COVID and the challenges people face in everyday life.

COVID-19 activity is rising in much of the country. Data shows overall respiratory virus spread is very low in the U.S.

While adults are more likely to get long COVID than are children, the risk of pediatric PCC is between 1% and 3% among those infected with COVID, the authors noted. “It was a minority of the ...

This translates to about six million children with Long COVID, which, the authors explain, "is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children." ...

This fall, it may not be possible for many parents to have a healthy child younger than age 5 immunized against COVID.

Co-author Larisa Hockey, of Long Covid Kids New Zealand, said the findings showed Covid-19 had had a "measurable and ongoing impact" on the health of many children.

About 1% of U.S. children – equivalent to roughly 1 million – have had long COVID, according to CDC data. Research also shows that vaccination may reduce the risk of long COVID in children.

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting ...

Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network.

While children are less likely to have serious infection than in adults, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting that "most children with COVID-19 have mild symptoms or have no ...