Long-Haul COVID Effects On Kids Leave Families With Few Answers

Ian Varys has been fighting debilitating long-haul COVID effects for more than a year, and his family doesn't know how to help.

Studies have shown about one in four adults who have gotten sick with COVID-19 – no matter how mild or severe their case was - will have long COVID symptoms lasting for four weeks or more. 

Since Delta has spread, millions of children have gotten sick, letting experts learn a little more about long haul in kids, but the questions still far outnumber the answers.  

Ian Varys, a 12-year-old living in Crystal Lake, Illinois, practices Taekwondo, which he says requires "a lot of patience and durability" — which, for him, have been exhausted for more than a year.