Children – even healthy teens and the very young – can have long Covid, several studies have found, and it can follow an infection that’s severe or mild.
Jessica Rosario loved watching her 15-year-old, Eliana, play flute with the rest of the marching band during Open Door Christian School football games. But after the homecoming game in 2021, she got an alarming call from the Ohio school’s band director. Rosario’s daughter was on the floor of the band room, clutching her chest.
“He was in so much pain, from his head down to his toes,” Varno said. The local ER and, later, his pediatrician chalked it up to growing pains. But the boy who jumped on a trampoline every day, who loved to run and play football, could barely walk or move. “That pain level was still there. Nothing was helping,” Varno said. She spent months taking him to several hospitals, but none could find a way to ease his pain.
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