Claim: 74,000 children are living with 'long Covid'.
Fact-check: Extrapolating figures around long Covid in kids is not the way to go - Full Fact
Verdict: the ons figures that these estimates are based on are 'experimental statistics' which have measured prevalence of some long covid symptoms in children at five weeks after infection. they shouldn't be used as an absolute measure from which to extrapolate population levels of long covid in children.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Daniella De Block Golding
Date published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00