Publication date: Jul 08, 2025
The researchers enrolled 472 children aged 0-2 years and 539 children aged 3-5 years. If the data suggest that four children in every class develop long COVID after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, it would be a serious concern. He also serves as the principal investigator of the MOVE-COVID-BW project, a multicenter initiative in Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany, focused on long COVID in children and adolescents. These findings produced distinct symptom indices for each age group. Elling noted a key limitation: Seroprevalence studies showed that by 2023, over 90% of children had been infected with SARS-CoV-2. As younger children often have asymptomatic infections, many cases may have been missed. It is medically inaccurate to group all symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks such as headache, anosmia, or dyspnea under one broad diagnosis. Among them, 59% (278 of 472) of the younger group and 74% (399 of 539) of the older group had documented prior infections.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Decade | Aged |
| Germany | Cov |
| Headaches | Covid |
| Pediatrics | Elling |
| Group | |
| Infection | |
| Long | |
| Older | |
| Parents | |
| Said | |
| Sars | |
| Symptoms | |
| Toddlers | |
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| Young |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | chronic headaches |
| disease | IDO | quality |
| disease | MESH | brain fog |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Tropicamide |
| disease | MESH | anosmia |
| disease | MESH | dyspnea |
| disease | MESH | asymptomatic infections |
| disease | MESH | infection |
| pathway | REACTOME | Infectious disease |
| disease | IDO | symptom |
| pathway | REACTOME | Digestion |
| disease | MESH | Infectious Disease |
| pathway | REACTOME | SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
| disease | MESH | SARS-CoV-2 infection |
| disease | MESH | Long COVID |
| disease | MESH | general health |