Long COVID can follow children for years, leading to cardiac, pulmonary, or cognitive rehabilitation therapy.

Long COVID now has an official name: “post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection” (PASC). Whatever you call it, the health impacts for children are unclear.

Teens and younger children are getting hit hard by COVID-19 and by Long COVID — lingering problems with fatigue and even heart disease.

A sharp upward trend in COVID-related pediatric hospitalizations plus an update on multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, and “long COVID.”

There really needs to be more awareness about the fact that children can and do get “long-haul COVID.”

The revelation that COVID hides in fat cells, provoking the release of inflammatory cytokines and other kinds of trouble, is causing a bit of a stir.

Bariatric surgeries have increased during the pandemic because people understand the link between obesity and COVID-19.

Obesity has been the biggest predictor of COVID-19 fatality. For this and other reasons, bariatric surgery has been making it through the pandemic quite well.

In the pandemic, the demand for bariatric surgery, including gastric bypasses and sleeves, rebounded more quickly than other types of elective procedures.

Through social media, we hear from doctors, nurses, and others in the healing profession, and the picture is not pretty.

We simply do not want any more people to get COVID-19, especially kids and their parents, and the medical personnel we count on to help us survive.

Since the Coronavirus pandemic began, professionals in many fields have recognized the value of an online presence.

A new COVID variant has shown up in South Africa, and as it soon might be found around the globe, we must take care of our healthcare professionals.

An increasing number of social media messages are not from pseudonymous people but from researchers, scholars, nurses, first responders, and their families.

Children with obesity or another pre-existing condition are particularly apt to contract COVID-19, and more likely to experience a serious case.

Obesity and coronavirus are mutually beneficial. They create and select victims for each other.

The existence of the virus has changed the entire landscape of societal relationships, casting a bright light on some areas that have been under-illuminated.

More than 5,200 of the 6.2 million U.S. children diagnosed with COVID have developed MIS-C. About 80% of MIS-C patients are treated in intensive care units.

Because COVID-19 seems to have a special affinity for fat cells, a lot of children who catch the disease are overweight or obese already.

COVID-19 disproportionately targets Latino and other ethnic communities, and adding obesity to the equation is a recipe for disaster.

Childhood obesity was already a noteworthy trend, but the pandemic has caused this trend to soar to new levels. What can and should be done?

What happens when parents come down with a highly contagious disease? What happens if one parent dies, or both of them? Problems multiply exponentially.

Currently, so many stresses work together to create a fraught environment for children, including factors that contribute to creating an obesogenic environment.

It helps to have a mental picture of what relentless multiplication implies, especially now that the new Delta variant appears to be even more contagious.

This continues the discussion of how children all over the world have been deprived of their custodial adults and introduced to chaos due to the pandemic.

There is an enormous amount of chain reaction from COVID-19, societal disruption, and consequences that result from so many illnesses and deaths.

The CDC says there is no increased risk of miscarriage and recommends COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and women trying to conceive.

The conditions of pregnancy are connected with obesity. As if that were not enough, now we have the coronavirus in the mix, complicating things even more.

Mothers and children are not only at risk of death or serious disability. Childhood obesity is woven right into the fabric of the coronavirus pandemic.

There is great potential for harm in being pregnant and ill with coronavirus at the same time. These are some of the reasons.