{"id":123641,"date":"2021-06-10T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/as-long-covid-affects-more-kids-doctors-cant-predict-who-is-at-risk"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:22:17","slug":"as-long-covid-affects-more-kids-doctors-cant-predict-who-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/as-long-covid-affects-more-kids-doctors-cant-predict-who-is-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"As long Covid affects more kids, doctors cant predict who is at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-long-covid-affects-more-kids-doctors-cant-predict-who-is-at-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As more kids go down the \u2018deep, dark tunnel\u2019 of long Covid, doctors still can\u2019t predict who is at risk.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cShe was a completely healthy, active kid and this just totally changed her life,\u201d her mother, Sara Dardis, said. \u201cSo obviously, Covid is real and it\u2019s real for kids. It needs to be taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate\u2019s story makes clear that long Covid is not an adults-only phenomenon. Numbers are hard to come by, but more children and adolescents are experiencing chronic symptoms after Covid even as the pandemic ebbs in the U.S., say doctors at the few clinics devoted to caring for them. Although the disease has played out in ways that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-89553-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">differ between adults and children<\/a>, long Covid is posing the same mystery in kids as in adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more kids go down the \u2018deep, dark tunnel\u2019 of long Covid, doctors still can\u2019t predict who is at risk. \u201cShe was a completely healthy, active kid and this just totally changed her life,\u201d her mother, Sara Dardis, said. \u201cSo obviously, Covid is real and it\u2019s real for kids. It needs to be taken seriously.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}