CORONA CRISIS 74,000 LONG COVID KIDS... Fears of new health time bomb
He was paralysed... skin was peeling off his hands & feet
CHILDREN who contract Covid-19 could end up suffering crippling long-term health problems, experts fear. hospital in pain so bad he was “paralysed from the neck down”. She added: “He was twitching, had rashes all over, his face was flushed and skin was peeling off his hands and feet.”
A consultant told the family Mani, of Newcastle, probably has Long Covid.
And Charlie, 37, of Milton Keynes, said she was “changed forever” by seeing her kids Mimi, five, Indy, ten,
Beck, 12, Emmett, eight, and Nico, 15, suffering. Sammie Macfarland, of campaign Long Covid Kids, said it was “Russian roulette” as to whether poorly children get Long Covid.
She said “There are 1,200 members of our group and 76% of children are unwell from the first wave, but parents aren’t taken seriously.
“They’re told their children have anxiety, are mimicking symptoms.”
The cause is unclear, but scientists have found some patients have antibodies that attack their own tissue.
Gabriel Scally, visiting professor of
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock vowed last August that specialist Long Covid clinics would open, saying: “This is an incredibly important area to me.”
By November, NHS England said there would be 40 clinics with £10million to cover set-up and operation costs until March. The Government now claims more than 60 clinics have been set up – but only a handful appear to be running. And parents public health at University of Bristol, urged the Government to start vaccinating under-18s to protect their “still developing” brains and bodies.
And Sarah Saul, of Safeedforall, said there was a “huge amount” that could be done to keep pupils safe in school, including cutting class sizes.
The Department of Health said new specialist NHS clinics would help children suffering “the debilitating long-term health implications of this virus”. The Royal College of GPS said kids’ care is taken “very seriously.” have slammed the Government for failing to fund a provision for kids with Long Covid.
Mother-of-five Charlie Mountford-hill told an Allparty Parliamentary Group that not enough was being done to help her and other families.
The 37-year-old said: “I look at my children and none of them are the children
they were before we got sick in March.”