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‘It’s destroyed us’: Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up

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INVESTIGATION - Parents of children with long Covid claim they have been accused of faking or exaggerating their child’s illness, leading to social services’ involvement and, in some instances, court cases and the threat of the child’s removal from the home.

Doctors struggle to diagnose the condition due to its complex range of symptoms and often treat it as a psychological rather than physical disease, with parents telling i they have been accused of child abuse and of fabricating the illness as a result.