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Children and teenagers rarely have long-term symptoms of coronavirus that last longer than three months, a new analysis suggests.
Researchers looked at 14 studies that included 20,000 kids from around the world battling so-called 'long Covid.'
They found that almost all children said their symptoms improved between four weeks and 12 weeks.
The team, from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in Victoria, Australia, says that the findings suggest the long Covid is not as much of a concern among under-18s as it is among adults.
A new study looked at 248 cases of MIS-C, a condition in which different body parts become inflamed, in pediatric patients with coronavirus out of more than nine million. Pictured: A five- year-old child in a hospital bed at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, May 2020
Long Covid appears in patients that have recovered from the virus and continue exhibiting symptoms for weeks, or potentially months or years, after clearing the infection.
There are a wide-array of symptoms that
