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Dr. Fauci, White House advisor on Corona issues and top U.S. virologist, has just issued this important warning for the vaccinated and unvaccinated!
The infectious disease expert pointed out these new long-term consequences.
The COVID pandemic has been dragging on for nearly two years now, with the virus infecting more than 46 million people in the U.S. alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unfortunately, even those who contracted it early in 2020 could still be feeling the effects of their illness. Health experts estimate that millions of people suffer from prolonged COVID, which is long-term symptoms that some people experience for weeks and months after their first positive COVID case. From persistent shortness of breath and cognitive problems to chest pain and heart palpitations, these new or persistent symptoms can have significant health consequences that researchers are still trying to learn more about.
During a COVID briefing at the White House on November 3, top COVID advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, commented on both long COVID and childhood vaccinations. According to the infectious disease expert, children can also contract the virus for longer periods of time.
Dr. Faucie with urgent warning
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“There are persistent and residual symptoms and complications in children that are called ‘long COVID,’ which occurs in children perhaps to a lesser extent, about 4 to 6 percent,” Fauci said. “But nonetheless, long COVID does occur in children.”
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), more than six million children have been diagnosed with COVID since the pandemic began. However, there is less clear information on how many children have long COVID. A study published September 1 in the BMJ found that one in seven children still had COVID-related symptoms 15 weeks after initial diagnosis. However, an earlier study published Aug. 3 in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health claimed that fewer than one in 20 children had symptoms that lasted longer than four weeks.
Severe inflammation possible
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“Different studies have shown different results depending on what parts of the world or what parts of the country you look at,” Dr. Carlos Oliveira, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, told Yale Medicine.
And the numbers can be higher depending on what you consider long term COVID. One of the most common long-term COVID complications in children is multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). This is a rare but serious condition in which various parts of the body can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes or gastrointestinal organs, according to the CDC.
“If you include every child hospitalized with MIS-C (by definition a complication of acute COVID), you come up with a higher prevalence,” Oliveira said. The CDC reports that as of Oct. 4, there have been more than 5,000 MIS-C cases in COVID-positive children younger than 18 and 46 subsequent deaths.