Event rates and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition in hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 positive children and young people and controls across different pandemic waves: exposure-stratified prospective cohort study in Moscow (StopCOVID).
Ekaterina PazukhinaMikhail RumyantsevDina BaimukhambetovaElena BondarenkoNadezhda MarkinaYasmin El-TaraviPolina PetrovaAnastasia EzhovaMargarita AndreevaEkaterina IakovlevaPolina BobkovaMaria PikuzaAnastasia TrefilovaElina AbdeevaAysylu GaliautdinovaYulia FilippovaAnastasiia BairashevskaiaAleksandr ZolotarevNikolay BulanovAudrey DunnGalvinAnastasia ChernyavskayaElena KondrikovaAnastasia KolotilinaSvetlana GadetskayaYulia V IvanovaIrina TurinaAlina EremeevaLudmila A FedorovaPasquale ComberiatiDiego G PeroniNikita NekliudovJon GenuneitLuis Felipe ReyesCaroline L H BrackelLyudmila MazankovaAlexandra MiroshinaElmira SamitovaSvetlana BorzakovaGail CarsonLouise SigfridJanet T ScottSammie McFarlandMatthew GreenhawtDanilo BuonsensoMalcolm G SempleJohn O WarnerPiero OlliaroIsmail M OsmanovAnatoliy A KorsunskiyDaniel Munblitnull nullPublished in: BMC medicine (2024)
Wuhan variant exhibited a propensity for inducing a broad spectrum of physical symptoms and emotional behavioural changes, suggesting a pronounced impact on long-term health outcomes. Conversely, the Omicron variant resulted in fewer post-infection effects no different from common seasonal viral illnesses. This may mean that the Omicron variant and subsequent variants might not lead to the same level of long-term health consequences as earlier variants.