Covid, Mantovani: “One in 7 children healed develops long covid”

One in seven children who get covid develop long covid 15 weeks after recovery. This was highlighted by Professor Alberto Mantovani, scientific director of the Humanitas Institute of Rozzano, at Che tempo che fa on Rai3. In Fabio Fazio’s living room, we talk about the vaccine for 5-11 year olds: the okay could arrive before Christmas. “Italian pediatricians have spoken very clearly before the summer in favor of vaccination. If the green light is given by the EMA and the regulatory agencies, I am in favor. The virus is now affecting children, 25% in the United States of the new cases is in pediatric age. Complications are rarer but there are, having a child in intensive care is a dramatic thing, “says Mantovani. “There is a new disease that rarely affects children, it is called Mis-C (multisystem inflammatory syndrome, ed), but it is a serious picture. And then there is the long covid; the estimate that I consider most reliable is that it affects 1 in 7 children affected by covid, 15 weeks after recovery, “says Mantovani. “The long covid are the long-term consequences, the boundary of this world is not clear: lung, cardiovascular, kidney problems. They do not seem related to the severity of the disease that has occurred. We think it can be prevented with the vaccine. No vaccine has given long-term problems, there are no reasons, “he says.