First a headline from HealthDay News:
“Overall, 16.2% of the pediatric population experience one or more persistent symptoms at least three months after COVID-19.”
Initially when I read that headline I thought “wow!”
But … was this just a pro-vax position camouflaged with a somewhat sensational headline?
After the headline the summary continues:
Li Jiang, M.D., M.P.H., from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and colleagues conducted a systematic review to examine the prevalence and characteristics of the long-term clinical features of COVID-19 (long COVID) in the global pediatric population (aged 0 to 19 years). Published articles and preprints from December 2019 to December 2022 were included; 27 cohorts and four cross-sectional studies involving more than 15,000 pediatric participants met the inclusion criteria.
The researchers found reports of more than 20 persistent symptoms and clinical features among children and adolescents. Overall, 16.2 percent of the pediatric participants experienced one or more persistent symptoms at least three months after COVID-19. Developing certain long COVID symptoms was possibly associated with female gender.
“Long COVID in children and adolescents has been reported with a very wide symptom spectrum and with great heterogeneity among studies included in this review,” the authors write. “The presentation of long COVID may change with time. There is the need for high quality, prospective, and well controlled studies to address these issues. In the interim, preventing COVID-19 infection and vaccinations for children and adolescents must remain a priority.”
Hmmm! Does that last line expose what this article is really about?
Obviously, there is no mention of the possible both long term and short term side effects from the Covid vaccine.
From the Epoch Times:
“Damage to the heart is more common than thought after receipt of Moderna’s COVID-19 booster, a new study in the European Journal of Heart Failure..
One in 35 health care workers at a Swiss hospital had signs of heart injury associated with the vaccine, mRNA-1273, researchers found.
The group experiencing the adverse effects was followed for only 30 days, and half still had unusually high levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T, an indicator of subclinical heart damage, at follow-up.
The long-term implications of the study remain unclear as little research has tracked people over time with heart injury after messenger RNA vaccination, which is known to cause myocarditis and other forms of heart damage.”
Would Bronny James and Damar Hamlin still be alive if they were not defibrillated quickly? If either of them had their cardiac arrest in a location where a defibrillator was not immediately available, would both of these stellar young athletes now be dead ? Kids play sandlot football and full-court basketball outside all the time. In these situations there are no defibrillators immediately available to stop one of them from dying if their heart stops beating. How often does this occur? No one knows, and no one appears interested in finding out.
If you are a parent with an athletic teenage boy do you get the Covid shot or the booster, and potentially risk the known side effect of myocarditis, or do you roll the dice and take the chance of long-Covid if he gets Covid?
Parents, you decide.
7/28/23