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A BC podcast producer has reached out hoping to connect with some folks regarding their lived experience with covid/long-covid while focusing on parent/kid combos. They're also open to connecting with educators.
If you feel you can help, please reach out & I will connect you with the podcaster.
February 9, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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"... long COVID is here to stay, even in children, and can be exacerbated by reinfections and sustained by high viral circulation... Without decisive action, the long-term societal cost of long COVID will continue to rise."
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Long COVID is here to stay—even in children
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...
www.thelancet.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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"A common misperception is that young children, including infants, toddlers, & preschoolers do not get Long-Covid, & if they do... their symptoms must look like those of older children and adults... we learned that this is not true."
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Discover RECOVER Presents: Long COVID in Early Childhood
YouTube video by RECOVER: Researching Covid to Enhance Recovery
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February 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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"... in 2024, consultations with GPs & emergency rooms were more than 7% higher than the pre-pandemic trend would suggest. That amounts to around 1.2 million additional doctor visits compared to what would have been expected..."
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Researchers: Not testing for Covid-19 is creating problems
People have become sicker after the pandemic, but without Covid-19 testing it's difficult to understand why.
www.sciencenorway.no
January 30, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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"Long COVID is common in children, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19... Long COVID impacts over 400,000 million people worldwide."
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Children, Families, & Long COVID: What can we do? A Documentary
YouTube video by Dr. Angela Grace
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January 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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"This subtle but measurable impairment suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may have persisting effects on cardiac function in pediatric patients, even in the absence of overt heart disease."
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Long term cardiovascular effects on COVID-19 infection in children. The need for monitoring
Although SARS-CoV-2 infection has been associated with mild illness in children, concerns have emerged regarding potential long-term cardiovascular and systemic effects, even in previously healthy ped...
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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"A large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study suggests that US school-aged children diagnosed as having long COVID are at 2.5 times the risk of related chronic absenteeism compared with those without the condition."
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Research ties long COVID in kids to chronic school absenteeism, learning problems
Long COVID was also linked to a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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"Young people & children infected with the COVID virus for a second time were twice as likely to develop long COVID than their peers who were infected just once..."
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Second infection in kids doubles long COVID risk | Penn Medicine
Pediatric data show that the increase in long COVID risk was also accompanied by the increased chance of developing a number of other related conditions.
www.pennmedicine.org
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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"What they missed is the tremendous surge in respiratory virus infections does have a scientifically valid explanation: SARS-CoV-2 infection causes immune system dysfunction."
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Immunity Debt: The Conspiracy Theory Elevated to Popular Pseudoscience That Is Making Children Sick
It is time to retire this dangerous and misleading concept and focus on the real science
lilscience.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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"While mortality and cardiovascular complication rates remained stable, there was a significant increase in respiratory complications and a notable shift in the age distribution of affected children."
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Clinical outcomes of influenza in individuals aged ≤20 years before and after COVID-19: a national analysis of mortality and complications - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - Clinical outcomes of influenza in individuals aged ≤20 years before and after COVID-19: a national analysis of mortality and complications
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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"Respiratory viruses don’t spread randomly. They spread through a structured transmission engine that links schools & homes together. Students infect classmates, bring infections home to siblings, & those siblings seed new classrooms..."
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The School Engine Behind Flu and COVID — and Why Clean Air for Kids Is the Missing Public Health Tool
Every winter we treat flu season as if it were driven by weather, chance, or holiday travel.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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"New studies from the United States & Poland detail COVID-19's cardiovascular toll, with one suggesting that infected children face significantly higher odds of conditions such as high blood pressure & heart failure..."
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Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 22, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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"Today, familiar foes, the flu, measles, COVID, and pertussis are swirling, infecting, and killing children. Meanwhile, vaccine rates are plunging, schools are closing in multiple states, and students are absent and quarantined."
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The Murray Hill Declaration
It's the responsibility of our medical establishment to protect the vulnerable and keep schools open.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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"In unadjusted analyses at 2 years, 14% of toddlers in the prepandemic group were at high risk for developmental delays on the BSID-III, in contrast to 51.6% in the COVID-19 group."
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In utero COVID exposure linked to brain changes, developmental delays, anxiety, and depression
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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"We have found clear age differences that have not been explained mechanistically... However, overall, this quantitative analysis speaks to a clear effectiveness of face covering in reducing community transmission."
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Estimating the value of face coverings during the COVID-19 epidemic: a dynamic causal modelling study
Introduction The value of face coverings in the pandemic has been disputed. Dynamic causal modelling (DCM) allows one to test hypotheses about the nature of viral spread and effectiveness of intervent...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Thank you to Daniella of the 'Public Health Is Dead' podcast as well as @juliadoubleday.bsky.social (The Gauntlet) for their contributions during this episode! While the episode discusses media coverage of the pandemic in general, there is a fair amount of discussion about impacts on children.
Bad Press: How the media manufactures consent in the age of COVID | Public Health is Dead
Most people get a lot of what they know about public health from what’s in the news. But what’s in the news—and the way it’s talked about—is not always clear or accurate.
public-health-is-dead.simplecast.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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"Students in B.C.’s biggest districts are missing significantly more school in recent years, with absences having tripled in some places..."
Note: Another article on school absences avoiding mention of the #1 chronic illness in children: Covid-19.
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Absences increasing in B.C.’s biggest school districts | CBC News
Students in B.C.’s biggest districts are missing significantly more school in recent years, with absences having tripled in some places, as found by an exclusive CBC News analysis. Experts say the inc...
www.cbc.ca
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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"Previous studies estimated the prevalence of long COVID in children to be between 10 and 20% —suggesting it has become one of the most common chronic illnesses in children. Asthma... affects 16%."
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'Disabling' chronic illness in children not taken seriously: Experts
"This is a public health crisis for children. And it demands action," Long Covid Families said in its promotion of the condition's awareness week.
www.newsweek.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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"Awareness campaigns targeting expectant mothers and families can help to disseminate crucial information related to COVID-19’s risks during pregnancy and the importance of vaccination, reinforcing community health efforts."
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Study Reveals Neonatal MIS-N Linked to Maternal COVID-19
Neonatal Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome: Insights from Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Exposure The onset of the global pandemic induced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not only posed dire consequences for adult
scienmag.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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"Vulnerable people face mockery or isolation for basic self-protection, while evidence of excess deaths, overwhelmed Long covid clinics with no treatments, and immune harm gets sidelined."
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The Left-Wing Propaganda Machine: Ridicule, Minimization, and the Normalization of Risk During COVID
Mocking the Masked
www.easychair.info
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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"In this analysis, over the 30-month period, about 102 000 (90% credible interval range between 40 000 and 164 000) people could have died without face covering. This corresponds to a 50% increase in mortality burden."
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Estimating the value of face coverings during the COVID-19 epidemic: a dynamic causal modelling study
Introduction The value of face coverings in the pandemic has been disputed. Dynamic causal modelling (DCM) allows one to test hypotheses about the nature of viral spread and effectiveness of intervent...
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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"... 12-year-old Victoria’s symptoms seem to come & go. With no rhyme & reason to when they show up & a general lack of awareness around Long Covid, the school’s shown little sympathy so far."
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Victoria never recovered from her first infection - Long Covid Kids Real Life Stories
Victoria She never really recovered from the first infection.That was when her brother came home from school with COVID in July 2021. Since then, 12-year-old Victoria’s symptoms seem to come and go. W...
www.longcovidkids.org
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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"COVID vaccines reduced the risk of emergency room or urgent care visits by 76% in children aged nine months to four years compared to unvaccinated children. The vaccines also reduced the risk by 56% in children aged five through 17 years old."
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CDC scientists find that COVID vaccines slash ER visits for children
In December 2025, the CDC published a study revealing that COVID vaccines significantly lower emergency room visits for children.
www.skepticalraptor.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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"... her school has been supportive & understanding. Partly because Tracey’s Head of Year is being treated under the Adult Long Covid Clinic herself... However, Tracey’s loss of smell & taste soon turned to extreme fatigue & debilitating headaches..."
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Tracey used to be extremely active - Long Covid Kids Real Life Stories
Tracey“She was extremely active and motivated before COVID.”These days, it doesn't matter how much sleep Tracey gets. Once in the top group of her grammar school, she now struggles to stay awake in cl...
www.longcovidkids.org
January 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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"We’re also learning, for example, how such viruses can spread through the air, and what their long-term impacts can be on us and our children — not to mention our politics."
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COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We’ve Learned | The Tyee
We need cleaner air, which requires changes in medical culture.
thetyee.ca
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 AM