Article Guardian: First year of pandemic claimed lives of 25 young people in England

Sly Saint · Jul 10, 2021

The studies did not assess the risk of “long Covid” in under 18s. However, speaking at a separate online seminar organised by the Royal Society of Medicine, one of the country’s leading experts on the condition in children and young people warned that a “tidal wave” of long Covid infections among teens was on the way.

Esther Crawley, a professor of child health at the University of Bristol, said that some frontline doctors were in denial about long Covid in children. “Parents and children are going to their GPs to try to seek help and being turned away.” She also said that her direct experience studying the condition had convinced her that children over the age of 12 should now be vaccinated.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...mic-claimed-lives-of-25-youngsters-in-england

(I'm guessing the seminar is https://www.s4me.info/threads/webin...ne-spotlight-on-long-covid-8-july-2021.20722/)

eta: so she's one of the countrys leading experts on LC now........

rvallee · Jul 10, 2021

Esther Crawley being confused that medical professionals are following the advice she has been pushing for decades is... on brand. Denier-in-chief is confused why her peers follow her advice to deny the thing she has spent her career denying.

It's amazing that no amount of failure can overcome being part of the club. Literally one of the people most responsible for this disaster and they just ask her opinion as if she knows what she's talking about, even as she expresses (probably feigned) confusion over what following the advice she has been pushing leads to.

Sly Saint · Jul 11, 2021

didn't know where to post this;
possibly a bit political but worth a watch

https://twitter.com/user/status/1413083438018613253

Sly Saint · Jul 22, 2021

Observer (Guardian)
Letters: Awful plight of those with ME

Awful plight of those with ME
As the parent of a young woman who has suffered with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for 21 years since the age of eight, I was deeply moved by your article on long Covid in children (“‘Their childhood has been stolen’: calls for action to tackle long Covid”, News).

But while I was relieved that so much attention is being paid to a new chronic and horrific condition, I felt like weeping for my daughter and the thousands like her, who have been ignored, disbelieved and vilified for years, not least by many medical professionals who should have been there to help and support them.

Like long Covid, ME typically follows a viral infection. Even when such an infection is easy to discover (as in the case of the Epstein-Barr virus) and precedes the onset of ME, the lack of a diagnostic test means that the symptoms of sufferers are often misunderstood as psychological, with the result that the need for vital biomedical research into ME has been consistently dismissed by successive governments. It would seem that it always takes a tragedy for action to be taken; perhaps the tragedy of long Covid will bring action for the desperate plight of those with ME.
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https://www.theguardian.com/theobse...us-pensioners-for-financial-shortfall-letters

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