This week on the Where Parents Talk podcast, host Lianne Castelino speaks to Dr. Rachel Gross, pediatrician and Clinical Research Investigator at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, a study examining long COVID symptoms in kids and teens.
DR. RACHEL GROSS
Pediatrician
Clinical Research Investigator
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medecine
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Mother of 2
“When we’re talking about long COVID, we’re talking about the prolonged symptoms or new conditions that occur long after an initial COVID infection resolves. And in some people, children, adults, these symptoms can last weeks, months or even years after the COVID infection resolves, and they can have debilitating effects. What we know about long COVID we’ve learned from studies of adults, and it’s so critically important to have studies that focus specifically on children, because as a general pediatrician, we know that children are not just little adults, —that they are growing and developing and they are unique throughout their growth in childhood, and so we really need to understand specifically what long COVID looks like in children.”