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A battle is raging over long covid in children

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While potentially millions of children suffer from this mysterious illness, researchers are still debating how big a problem it is.

A battle is raging over long covid in children | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Before Jasmin got covid-19 last year, she was an especially active 10-year-old. She loved dancing, swimming, and gymnastics. “She was always upside-down, doing handstands,” says her mother, Binita Kane. Although she only had a mild case of the virus, she developed lasting, debilitating symptoms that kept her out of school. Jasmin, now 11, has abandoned her activities. Today, she uses a wheelchair. Jasmin is one of an unknown number of children with long covid . She regularly suffers from fevers, a sore throa

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