Long COVID Impacts Adolescents Different Than Young Children

According to a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) related media entry, adolescents were most likely to experience low energy/tiredness while children were most likely to report headache based on output associated with the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) program. Rachel Gross, M.D., associate professor in the departments of pediatrics and population health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and lead author on the study.

The ongoing, NIH-funded, and criticized program investigating long COVID, RECOVER included this recent output involving scientists investigating long COVID in youth, finding comparable yet distinct patterns between school-age children (ages 6-11 years) and adolescents (ages 12-17 years) involving frequent symptoms.