US hospital to conduct pediatric disease modeling for long Covid

Washington, Jan. 12 (IANS) Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will take a holistic approach to understanding how early inflammatory and tissue responses can predict the long-term health consequences of Covid-19 on children, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States. .

People infected with SARS-CoV-2 usually recover within days or weeks. However, some people have long-term effects that persist for weeks, months, or even years, known as Long Covid, Xinhua news agency reports.

While considerable effort has been made to understand how Covid-19 affects the body in adults, much less is known about how the virus affects children and how these effects manifest in the long-term consequences of illness. infection on health, the FDA said.

The new project will study clinical cohorts of children to try to identify a signature of inflammatory disease and tissue damage specific to Covid-19.

The project also seeks to identify potential biomarkers that correlate with a Covid-19-specific signature of inflammatory disease and tissue damage during disease progression, the FDA said.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will integrate molecular and clinical evaluations of pediatric patient samples to develop a model that can predict whether a child is more likely to have long-term negative Covid-19 results.

–IANS