Characterizing Long COVID Symptoms During Early Childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Recent studies have identified characteristic symptom patterns of long COVID (LC) in adults and children older than 5 years. However, LC remains poorly characterized in early childhood. This knowledge gap limits efforts to identify, care for, and prevent LC in this vulnerable population.

Objectives

To identify symptoms that had the greatest difference in frequency comparing children with a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection to those without, to identify differences in the types of symptoms by age group (infants/toddlers [0-2 years] vs preschool-aged children [3-5 years]), and to derive an index that can be used in research studies to identify young children with LC.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a multisite longitudinal cohort study with enrollmen

SUBMITTER: Gross RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12117493 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature