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Study: COVID-19 vaccine tied to lower risk of long COVID in kids

Published January 16, 2024

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By Stephanie Soucheray

A study today in the journal Pediatrics from researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suggests COVID-19 vaccines have a moderately protective effect in kids against long COVID.

The authors of the retrospective study mined electronic health records from 17 healthcare systems to assess whether the vaccine protected children from long COVID, which has been less common in kids than in adults. The study began in October 2022.

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Researchers find COVID-19 causes mitochondrial dysfunction in heart and other organs

Published August 9, 2023

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Published by: Medical Xpress
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By Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

This study provides us with strong evidence that we need to stop looking at COVID-19 as strictly an upper respiratory disease and start viewing it as a systemic disorder that impacts multiple organs. The continued dysfunction we observed in organs other than the lungs suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction could be causing long-term damage to the internal organs of these patients.

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