Kids' Long COVID Risk Doubles After Second Infection, Researchers Say

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Teens and children were less vulnerable to life-threatening COVID-19 infections during the global pandemic, from 2020 to 2023 — but they aren’t immune to the disease or to long COVID, illness after the initial infection that can last for weeks, months or longer. A new study of nearly 500,000 people younger than 21 found that those who contracted COVID a second time were twice as likely to develop long COVID as after a first infection.

Kids' Long COVID Risk Doubles After Second Infection, Researchers Say

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Long COVID Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long COVID after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

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