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Thank you for your continued interest and support. The LCK awareness pack is updated each Sunday. 

Overview of what's new this week.

• LCK Founder Sammie joined the National Institute of Health Research Expert Group (NIHR)
• LCK  met with the Office For National Statistics (ONS) for a second time to advocate improved representation of children including updating symptoms lists and symptom duration. Updates will be made June 2021, earliest
• Due to our global work, our website is now available in 10 languages
• The Metro spoke to Prof. Russel Viner regarding our preprint. Our research highlights the fundamental caution that must be taken with the health of children.
• Christina Pagel, mathematician, professor of operational research at University College London, and member of Independent SAGE writes a useful Twitter thread on our research preprint. Find it here. 
• Our research preprint can be accessed here. More on our research next week.
• We enter the final planning phase of our next research study.
• Latest figures. We publish our children's COVID hospital admission graph just short of its first anniversary. Children's COVID hospital admissions have yet to fall to levels seen over the summer or at the start of the pandemic.

If you have any questions please do reach out to our team who will be pleased to assist.

LCK Team 💚

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH & RESEARCH (NIHR)

Second themed review into Long COVID published

Findings suggest that

Long COVID appears to be more prevalent in women and in young people (including children) than might have been expected from acute COVID-19 mortality

There is increasing evidence of organ impairment in both people who were admitted to the hospital and those who stayed at home

Dr. Elaine Maxwell, author of the review

"The fact that so many different people, independently, and in different countries, are coming up with similar findings adds to the weight of evidence that there is something that we need to investigate further"

She warned: “You cannot predict from the severity of your initial infection, how severe your long COVID will be

Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer

“What we currently term ‘long COVID’ likely covers a range of syndromes, which will require different approaches"

Full report here

THINK LONG COVID 

Not all families will know that their children had COVID-19 as many children are asymptomatic or atypical. Regardless of the severity of infection, children can experience

Long COVID and Paediatric Inflammatory Multi-System Syndrome (PIMs)

NEWS ON SCHOOLS

What is happening now schools are back

is that the pediatric surge is due to #B117 compounded by low use of masks.

Credit 

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1370742862338482176?s=20

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