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Long Covid Advocacy call for inquiry on long-term disability Long Covid Advocacy warns Mr Johnson’s government’s failures contributed to delayed diagnoses, disrupted education and devastating isolation for affected children. The organisation is calling for the Inquiry to hold political leaders accountable for the long-term disability crisis it says is now affecting thousands of UK families. It points to Office for National Statistics data showing one in 165 children and young people, - 72 000 individuals - reported Long Covid symptoms after a second Covid-19 infection. Dr Rupert Higham, of the Institute of Education at University College London, said: “Johnson’s contempt for the truth is written in the bodies of our children. We’re not interested in apologies. Children and young people deserve justice, recognition, and change. That means accountability for the past and prevention for the future.”
