Rare Covid-19 Syndrome Kills 3 Children in New York | Coronavirus

Cuomo reported on Friday the death of a 5-year-old boy related to the coronavirus and a syndrome that shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease. This was the first known fatality related to the rare disease in New York.

The governor said in an interview Saturday that the disease had killed at least three young men across the state. He did not give details of the ages or circumstances of the deaths.

But Cuomo said he was increasingly concerned that the syndrome was an emerging risk for children, who had previously been widely considered immune to severe cases of Covid-19, a respiratory illness caused by the virus.

He said state health officials are analyzing 73 cases in which children exposed to Covid-19 also had symptoms of the syndrome, which he said included inflammation of the blood vessels, which in turn can cause heart problems.

According to Cuomo, the children tested positive for Covid-19 or the antibodies against it, “but these were not the symptoms they showed when they entered the hospital system.”

Calling it a “truly disturbing” development, the governor said people were working under the impression that young people were not at risk for the coronavirus.

“We’re not so sure about that anymore,” he said. “It is very possible that this has happened for several weeks and has not been diagnosed as being related to Covid.”

Cuomo said the New York Department of Health partnered with the New York Genome Center and Rockefeller University to see if there is a genetic basis for the syndrome, the cases of which were first reported in the UK, Italy and Spain. . .

New York is the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, accounting for more than a third of the 77,313 Covid-19 deaths in the United States, according to a Reuters count.