Coronavirus, anyone else worried about the long term affect to their children's health?

[MumToBe1980]

Okay so I'm a massive overthinker, and probably completely nuts (too long in isolation) but also worked in healthcare/pharma/clinical settings so fairly educated in health care. Am I the only person concerned about the long term impact coronavirus may have on our children's health? This is a virus that we have no long term data on and although children may not seem to be affected by the virus, it remains in their bodies dormant as all viruses do. When a person is infected with hiv or hpv they have no immediate symptoms however the illness (or cancer in the case of hpv) develops years later. I know it is a totally different mode of transmission however I believe coronavirus attacks the same type of cell. I know this is highly unlikely but am surprised that nobody seems too concerned with this. Am I missing something? Sorry don't want to scare monger but hoping someone with more knowledge on viruses may be able to help reassure me (a little)

Not really. I worry about it in the same way I worry they might get meningitis.

But as long as I'm sensible there's not much point in worrying. What will be will be. We're not going to ballet, meals out or birthday parties but we will be doing school, outdoor playgrounds and takeaways.

Not all viruses remain dormant (viral latency is the correct terminology). So far there is no evidence that this coronavirus that causes Covid19 does, as far as I am aware. Other coronaviruses don't, although that doesn't mean that no coronavirus ever could. HPV and HIV are both viruses that do so you can't really compare them.

Thete was early Horizon/BBC programmes that had infectious disease specialists etc on and they were describing it in terms of why it isn't like other viruses, in the sense that you are worried about. It is a strain of flu. It does linger but people who've had the kidney/liver/brain issues are recovering. I've had a bit of liver problems after getting Covid, but my results are starting to come back normal. My wee was orange for months, but it's now yellow.

It might weaken us in the way TB does. But children who are a healthy body weight seem to recover.

I don’t worry about it because, even if it there might be long term negative effects, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Or at least nothing I can do without isolating them from normal life for months or years, which would definitely have long term negative effects,

Nope

When I was speaking to a Consultant from the Liverpool school of Tropical medicine (who are doing some great pieces of research), she was saying that this is the opposite of HIV. It doesn't hide and it's easy to destroy. Your outcome is mostly down to how healthy your systems, especially vascular, are. Which is one of the reasons why obese children and adults are adversely effected.