Babies and toddlers 2 years and under experienced different long-COVID symptoms than preschoolers ages 3 to 5 years, according to a study yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
The study is the latest body of research to come out of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative, and was conducted by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, Mass General Brigham in Boston, and elsewhere in the United States.
In total, 472 infant and toddlers were in the youngest group, and 539 preschool-aged children were in the older group, with all study participants enrolled from March 2022 to July 2024. Enrollment took place at 30 US medical centers.
About 15% of kids had long COVID
Overall, among children who had been previously infected with COVID-19, 40 of…