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Help us report on long COVID in kids

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Kaylee Joaquim, 13, uses an iPad at her suburban Boston home. She contracted COVID-19 in January 2022. Kaelyn Lynch/For Youth Today

Millions of kids and teens are living with long COVID. Their varied symptoms — from rashes and trouble remembering things to excruciating limb and stomach pain and weight loss — can have wide-ranging effects on their lives and on their families.

Long COVID is hard to track. Research estimates that anywhere from 4% to 25% of the 15.6 million American children and adolescents who have had a COVID-19 infection will develop some form of long COVID.

Youth Today is reporting on the impacts of long COVID on young people.

We want to hear from you.

🧒 Are you a young person who has or had long COVID?

🏡 Are you a parent of or caregiver for a pediatric long COVID patient?

🚑 Do you deal with pediatric long COVID as a medical or insurance professional, researcher or educator?

📢 We want to hear from you.

Please fill out the short form below or email editor@youthtoday.org.

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