Despite relatively few of the US's COVID-19 cases being from children, and even fewer of those children dying or being hospitalized as a result of the virus, the scientific community is hearing more and more every day about a growing number of children reporting "long-haul" effects. The children for the most part, show no organ damage or issues on blood tests. Still, they experience symptoms months after contracting COVID, that include headaches, extreme fatigue, and heart palpitations, reports the Washington Post.
A number of medical centers across the country have set up clinics in an attempt to better understand these symptoms. The data so far is "spotty and incomplete," but officials know that for children ages 12 to 16 who contracted the virus, 15 percent had at least one lingering symptom.
A clinic in Rome, however, also studying children who'd contracted COVID, found that more than half of the one hundred and something young participants still felt symptoms.
Several experts have suggested that the children who still experience symptoms may be suffering from genetic susceptibility to a hyper inflammatory response, which they are only now discovering after having the virus.
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