Weeks into the start of the fall semester, Violet Affleck remains one of the busiest college students around. The 19-year-old daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner appeared in front of the United Nations on Tuesday, where she gave a speech on the ongoing threat of long COVID — particularly for children.

Appearing as a youth advocate at an event focused on indoor air quality, Affleck criticized leaders for “ignoring, downplaying, and concealing” the risks of long COVID. Noting that the chronic illness is now more common among children under 5 than asthma, she said : “I shudder to think of where we’ll be in another five years of unmitigated infection and reinfection.” According to a recent article published in JAMA Pediatrics , long COVID — where symptoms last more than thre

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