Department of Pediatrics

New Report Raises Concerns About Long Covid in Children

Written by The New York Times | February 07, 2024

The new review suggested that 10 to 20 percent of children in the United States who had Covid developed long Covid. However, Suchitra Rao, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Children’s Hospital Colorado [and associate professor of pediatrics at CU School of Medicine] and co-author on the paper, acknowledged that there are “lots of caveats” with the prevalence estimates used to arrive at that number.