Does Long COVID Exist in the Pediatric Age Group?

Discussion With COVID-19, the scientific research process is playing out daily in the press where the general public can see for themselves and share in the new knowledge and frustrating events that occur usually behind the curtain of science. People try to understand the little snippets of new knowledge that come forth and how they fit into the COVID problem, and most importantly how it may affect themselves, the people they care about and their community. Patients and families daily ask questions of their health care providers who themselves have the same questions, and answer something like “We’re learning something new every day.” Scientists grapple with a variety of the fundamental scientific questions for COVID or any other scientific research question including: What is the disease and its variations? What are the agreed-upon definitions? What is the incidence and prevalence and other epidemiological data of the disease? What populations are affected or at higher or lower risk? Why does this appear to be the case? What population is even being studied in the research? Are the findings consistent across populations and locations? What appears to mitigate or promulgate the disease process? What alternative diagnoses need to be considered? Are rare findings associated with the disease disease? Are they a cause of it? Are they just a random occurence? What is the natural history of the disease? What are the long-term problems in 1, 5, 10 years or potenti...
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