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Eleanor said:
The AI "summary" is longer than the original text and its version of the 'Aims of the Event' includes things which aren't in the original. I do appreciate the effort and intention in posting it but these AI things often just introduce confusion (and we get enough confusion already).
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Oops, thanks for the heads up!
I replaced the AI gibberish with the actual text from the website.
 
www.mirror.co.uk

Covid Inquiry uncovers ‘forgotten’ children left disabled by Long Covid

Long Covid Kids supports 7,000 children whose parents say they have been 'gas lit' by NHS, schools and social services, as the inquiry uncovered pandemic-era advice against diagnosing the condition
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The Covid-19 Inquiry revealed that during the pandemic, medical professionals were advised not to label children with Long Covid due to concerns about potential psychological harm. As a result, many children suffering from post-viral symptoms were never formally diagnosed. Families affected by the condition told the inquiry their children have been left disabled, often bedbound, and largely ignored by the NHS, schools, and social services.

The charity Long Covid Kids supports 7,000 families facing similar challenges. Its founder, Sammie McFarland, stated that public health messaging minimized children’s symptoms, which often became severe and long-lasting. Parents described being “gas lit” by healthcare professionals who dismissed their children’s physical symptoms as mental health issues. Many said there is no clear NHS diagnostic pathway for children and that Long Covid clinics are closing.

Among those affected are Harbinder Dhaliwal’s three children, aged 12 and 15, who have been unable to attend school for three years. Jana Touati’s 15-year-old son, Samir, developed Long Covid after catching the virus when schools reopened without sufficient safety measures. He now uses a wheelchair and suffers from cognitive and muscular issues. Both mothers attended the Covid Inquiry, saying that affected children have become “invisible.”

Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates that one in 165 children and young people—about 72,000 individuals—reported Long Covid symptoms after a second infection, though no data exist on how many remain disabled. Research from Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London involving 12,600 children found that 70% recovered within two years, but teenage girls were twice as likely to remain affected.

An NHS spokesperson said over 100,000 people, including children, have received support through specialist clinics. The UK Government stated it is funding further research and remains committed to ensuring all children with Long Covid receive appropriate care and recognition.
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The Covid-19 Inquiry revealed that during the pandemic, medical professionals were advised not to label children with Long Covid due to concerns about potential psychological harm.
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If they did not name those doing the 'advising' (and I suspect it was a lot more direct and forceful than mere 'advice'), then they have not helped resolve the situation.
 
Parents described being “gas lit” by healthcare professionals who dismissed their children’s physical symptoms as mental health issues. Many said there is no clear NHS diagnostic pathway for children and that Long Covid clinics are closing.
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An NHS spokesperson said over 100,000 people, including children, have received support through specialist clinics.
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Always, you find this complete separation of two mutually exclusive realities: the patients testifying endlessly about how disastrous it all is, the health care systems shrugging in response, not only indifferent to the fact that nothing is being done, but indifferent to having wasted resources to accomplish the exact same as not doing anything.

What the second quoted sentence describes is mere presenteeism: they were seen, professionals were present at some point. So freaking what? It amounts to nothing. In fact, most of the first sentence is about the second, how those clinics are a total sham, many of them run by professionals who openly state exactly what the complaints are about. Even some of the useless research they love to point at was done by deniers, and no surprise it amounted to nothing.

Also I absolutely don't believe that 100K were seen in a way that counts as clinical care. Not a damn chance. And both options are equally bad. If it were true, and it all amounts to nothing, how is this not a scandal when it has been denounced, even protested, again and again?

Aristocratic systems detached from reality. There is no such thing as a technocratic system, in the end they all dissemble into struggles for influence and become ruled by politics and personal agendas, ignoring their core mission and serving private interests in secret, behind closed doors.

Yesterday, Chris Whitty, who is a medical expert, said at the COVID inquiry that they didn't say anything about Long Covid because it's discussed plenty in the media. The vast majority of reports in the news media, in the UK and elsewhere, are all about a state of systemic negligence, denouncing total abandonment by health care systems, of lives broken and people begging for meaningful help. When experts have to lie this much, the whole system is rotten.
 
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