Prevalence and Characteristics of Persistent Symptoms in Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Household Cohort Study in England and Wales

Faith Miller, Dr Vincent Nguyen, Annalan M.D. Navaratnam, Madhumita Shrotri, Jana Kovar, Andrew C. Hayward, Ellen Fragaszy, Robert W. Aldridge, Pia Hardelid*

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36 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)979-984
Number of pages6
JournalPediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Volume41
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2022
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant numbers MC_PC19070 and MR/V028375/1, and MR/N013867/1 to Miss Miller] and the Wellcome Trust [grant number 206602 to Professor Aldridge]. The study also received Facebook advertising credit to support a pilot social media recruitment campaign on 18th August 2020. Research at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health is supported by the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre [grant number IS-BRC-1215-20012]. The other authors received no additional funding. The sponsors of the study had no role in conducting this analysis or drafting this manuscript.

Keywords

  • SARS-CoV-2
  • chronic fatigue
  • long COVID
  • persistent symptoms
  • prevalence

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