"The dysfunction of the cells could be a phenotype predisposing to LCS, but we believe it to be rather a complication of the acute disease. Moreover, this may be a possible explanation for the virus reactivations (EBV, HHV6),59 the frequent Streptococcal tonsillitis,60 or upper airway infections of children with LCS observed in our praxis and worldwide with the more serious influenza or RSV seasons."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-024-03731-1

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Maybe one of the most interesting things to me, as a lay person, in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-024-03731-1 is as I read this a lab Dx for Long Covid in children is doable and distinguishes cleanly from convalescent children without Long Covid symptoms (Figure 4: D, K, and I).

I read this Nature paper as absolutely puting to rest claims that children aren't getting LC or that it's post-2020 trauma and so on. There's been other evidence before but I don't remember other gaps that were so clean.

h/t a half dozen zeroes.ca and other fedisci folks

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