ALT White graphic with teal lettering advertises the webinar "Probing Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with ME/CFS -- Watch the recording!" Two women with shoulder-length brown hair are pictured: Dr. Akiko Iwasaki (Yale School of Medicine) and Emily Taylor (President and CEO of Solve M.E.)

ALT „The COVID pandemic began with a myth - that children are spared its ill effects. In contrast, many children were sick with COVID, and we now have a new chronic illness emerging. We are working hard to characterize long COVID in children and it will be critical for policymakers to assure that we have adequate resources to support and manage these children now and in the future." Lawrence Kleinman, professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

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