KEY POINTS

Impacts of long COVID show that child development and ability to complete an education can suffer significantly.

Little is known about what makes some people more susceptible to long COVID than others, including children.

Long COVID advocates say the issue is commonly unrecognized, insufficiently researched and too often dismissed.

Holly Olson calls COVID-19 a “crazy, wild journey” that’s been hard to shake for her Layton, Utah, household. She and her husband, Steve, and their kids were all sickened by the virus four years ago, with different symptoms and degrees of severity.

Then she and the kids — Jacob, 18 at the time; Megan, 17 back then; Jenna, then 14 and Wyatt, who was 10 — developed long COVID just weeks after what looked like full recovery, again with different sym

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