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Children and young people with long COVID: overlooked and neglected
We are two young people aged 19 and 20 years in the UK who both developed long COVID more than 2 years ago. This resulted in us being housebound for over a year, essentially taking a year out of our lives in the hope of getting well enough to attend school and then university. This had a significant impact on our education and our ability to socialise as young adults. We experienced a wide variety of symptoms such as severe chronic fatigue, brain fog, and post-exertional malaise and have since had to navigate young adulthood with a chronic condition that has little research, information, and support available.
