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I get that part, what I'm wondering now is that in light of those findings, are we concerned that there is a similar risk to younger folks who got COVID?

• walterbell 5y ago
  Immune system response between children and 60-year olds is dramatically different. Hence the importance of early treatment to assist the immune system, especially in older people.
• Alex3917 5y ago
  > are we concerned that there is a similar risk to younger folks who got COVID Children's ACE2 receptors are more resilient to damage, which is likely why they have only ~50% the risk of long covid as compared with a fully vaccinated adult. So yes, it's definitely a risk, but a smaller one. That said, as an adult you can likely mitigate any cardiovascular damage at least somewhat by taking an ACE inhibitor to up-regulate your ACE2 receptors, whereas without medical training that probably wouldn't be especially safe or ethical to do on your kids.
• disambiguation 5y ago
  In lieu of a study that answers this exactly, we could extrapolate the general risk of covid to get a sense of how different age brackets are affected. That is, given people over 50 make up 93% of severe outcomes, I wouldn't expect young people to exhibit significant levels of heart damage or other types of "long covid".