Given the number of children with long COVID, why do we continue to act as though each wave doesn’t hurt thousands of them? It’s now the number one chronic condition in kids in the states. ONS used to do a winter survey, which last reported in 2024 (number of kids with long covid in UK doubled since 2023). Yet children are told to attend when contagious, there are no air cleaners, often poor ventilation, no education to teachers/parents on signs to look out for, no treatments. These kids are often just left to rot or see a parent left to rot. Why after all this time have we still not made schools safer considering the devastating impacts covid continues to have on so many?
https://www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2025/06/17/victoria-collins-addressing-long-covid-in-children-is-an-urgent-moral-imperative/