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From FranceTVinfo:
These are just a few cases, but they do give some parents cold sweats. Doctors in several countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy, reported in recent days the appearance of cases of children with serious pathologies up to heart failure. In France, there are “more than twenty” in the Paris region, and a few others in the rest of the country, AP-HP reported Thursday, April 30. The previous day, at Franceinfo, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, said that he took these reports “very seriously” and requested the collection “of as much data as possible.”
The symptoms suggest an atypical form of a rare but well-known childhood pathology: Kawasaki disease. But some of the affected children were also positive for Covid-19: this is even the case for all those analyzed by AP-HP in Ile-de-France. A discovery that questions a possible link, yet to be confirmed, between the symptoms and the coronavirus.
Why are we suddenly talking about a new disease that affects children?
The problem has been emerging for a few days, after simultaneous alerts in various countries. In the UK, the Pediatric Critical Care Society revealed (PDF) on Monday that it had received an alert from health services about “a slight increase in the number of critically ill children” presenting “an unusual clinical picture”, that combines signs of toxic shock syndrome, an “atypical” form of Kawasaki disease and Covid-19. UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said he was “very concerned” and said health officials were investigating the matter.
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