Long COVID in children - Authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
² Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
³ Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Women and Children's Health, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, School of Life Course Sciences, King's College London, London, UK; Children's Neurosciences, Evelina London Children's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, King's Health Partners, Academic Health Science Centre, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Endocrinology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation trust, London, UK. Electronic address: emma.duncan@kcl.ac.uk.

Comment

Erika Molteni et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;6(1):e3.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00344-8.

¹ School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
² Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
³ Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Women and Children's Health, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, School of Life Course Sciences, King's College London, London, UK; Children's Neurosciences, Evelina London Children's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, King's Health Partners, Academic Health Science Centre, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Endocrinology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation trust, London, UK. Electronic address: emma.duncan@kcl.ac.uk.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests. EM is supported by a Medical Research Council personal Fellowship at King's College London.

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