Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says

Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by _aavaa_ on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:22AM (#29860437)

> 3. Covid is not a one and done. You get it, and it can have long term lasting effects even if it doesn't kill you. That applies to children as well.

> 3. Please present evidence of long term effect in a non-negligible percentage of children

> There is no long term data either way anywhere because we have to live through it first.

If we don’t have long term data one way or the other, why is the starting assumption that children will experience long Covid to the same extent and same severity as adults (especially given that they have much lower rates of getting a serious case of covid compared to adults)?

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by dagmx on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:28AM (#29860466)

Because early results show that there are long term effects in children, we just don't know how bad, and we already know about long covid in adults. Long covid also doesn't require having very severe symptoms either.

And again, children don't exist in a vacuum and can therefore cause long term issues in adults.

This is about being cautious based on what we do know. And we do know it's a crippling societal risk that children are such a huge vector.

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