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One greeting successful May, arsenic I scanned my inbox, I spotted an email with the taxable enactment “16 twelvemonth aged with Long Covid.” Intrigued, I opened the message. It was from Lilly Downs, and she wanted to archer her communicative and rise consciousness astir the mysterious information that tin travel a coronavirus corruption and however it tin interaction teens.

I had wanted to constitute a communicative profiling idiosyncratic with what’s travel to beryllium known arsenic agelong COVID for months. The authorities was besides seeing much COVID-19 infections among teenagers, truthful the timing seemed right. We haven’t heard overmuch astir agelong COVID successful kids. truthful we astatine The Denver Post wanted to research what this is similar for children and teens. I jumped connected the story, scheduling an archetypal Zoom interrogation with Lilly and her family.

Once we knew the household was connected board, lensman Hyoung Chang and I spent clip with them implicit a play of 4 months. Lilly had not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus and her parents were wary of her getting sick again/ (She already had contracted COVID-19 twice, aft all!.) So our archetypal gathering was extracurricular with everyone wearing masks. We started spending clip indoors with them (still with masks on) erstwhile Lilly was vaccinated aboriginal successful the summer. We went with Lilly to her shot practices and doctor’s appointments. We spent clip with the household astatine home, and erstwhile Lilly was hospitalized successful August, we visited her there, too.

Since portion of the communicative required going backmost successful clip to Lilly’s infirmary enactment successful November and December, I reviewed her aesculapian records from that time. The records, which were provided by the family, told of however doctors tried to dainty Lilly and the lesions that appeared connected her tegument past fall. Lilly’s mother, Elisa Downs, besides kept notes of their clip successful the infirmary and helped pass the reporting. I besides spoke to Lilly’s doctors and different physicians treating agelong COVID successful pediatric patients and work studies connected the topic.

I anticipation you’ll instrumentality immoderate clip to work this communicative astir Lilly and spot Hyoung’s photographs of this teen for whom a COVID-19 corruption has go a astir year-long aesculapian ordeal.

— Jessica Seaman, Denver Post reporter

“She is specified a puzzle”: Colorado teen’s months-long ordeal spotlights mysteries of agelong COVID

Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post

After being discharged from the hospital, Lilly Downs, 17, inactive has to instrumentality liquid nutrient done a conduit placed successful her chemoreceptor astatine her location successful Golden, Colorado, connected Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.

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