> "I just worry we're going to have a generation of kids who have a post-acute infection syndrome because we failed to protect them," Dr Putrino says, "because we told this lie over and over again that kids have nothing to worry about with COVID."

The myth that COVID is 'harmless' for kids has left millions of children with long COVID invisible. Here's what they want you to know https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/children-with-long-covid-dismissed-doctors-myth-virus-harmless/103959078 via @wallabagapp

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Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids

They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and invisible.

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