Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Q050l99K4QI   One in every four children under the age of 18 develops symptoms of long CoVid following a given CoVid infection.  An international collaborative group that includes Harvard, Emory, Cornell, Rutgers, Swedish and Mexican universities performed a meta-analysis of  21 published studies covering some 80,071 children and adolescents 0 to 18 years of age.   The crunched numbers reveal that 25.4% of all children diagnosed with CoVid developed one or more symptoms of long CoVid lasting 4 weeks or longer.  For those who required hospitalization, the prevalence was higher at 29.2%.  Children with long CoVid had multiple symptoms, and the most common were anxiety and depression in 16.5%, sleep disorders in 8.4%, persistent headache in 7.8%, breathing problems in 7.6%, excess chest and nasal mucus in 7.5%, thinking problems in 6.2%, loss of appetite in 6%, exercise intolerance in 5.7%, and smell and taste issues in 5.6%.  Compared with uninfected children, those who contracted C