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Even in the United States, children have become mysteriously ill after being affected by the coronavirus. The children, some of whom have been treated with a respirator, appear to have had a hitherto unknown inflammatory syndrome.
Even in the United States, children have now been discovered with a mysterious inflammatory syndrome from the coronavirus.
It is the New York Times magazine that tells about 15 children in New York City who are now being cared for in hospitals due to symptoms reminiscent of Kawazaki disease, an unusual inflammatory syndrome that mainly affects children. Similar cases have been reported in both the UK and Italy.
None of the 15 children, ages 2 to 15, died, but according to the newspaper, all suffered from a multi-system inflammatory syndrome with a possible link to covid-19. On Monday night, Howard Zucker, New York State’s health commissioner, stated that the state will also investigate the cases more closely.
In a newsletter like the city released Monday revealed that most of the 15 children had suffered from redness, vomiting and diarrhea. After being hospitalized, five of the children needed respiratory assistance, while the majority needed blood pressure. Physicians were asked to watch out for patients with similar symptoms.
“The whole picture is unclear. Of the 15 patients, the majority have tested positive for the coronavirus, or antibody tests have been found for a previous infection, ”he reads.
It was in late April that experts in the UK and Italy alerted to a possible link between covid-19 and an unexpectedly large number of children affected by an unusual inflammatory syndrome, some of whom had died.
Kawasaki disease symptoms They are fever, rashes, and swollen glands. In more severe cases, blood vessels can also become inflamed where vital organs, such as the heart and its coronary arteries, can also be affected. It is unknown what causes Kawasaki disease and the syndrome generally affects only one child for every 100,000 children, most of them under the age of five.
Then on April 28, when the British and Italian cases became known, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said:
– We (in Sweden) have no reports on that today, what I know or what has emerged. Also in the UK, apparently it’s very unusual, and we’re not even sure we’ll see it. From the UK side they also say they don’t know if there is any connection to covid-19 or not. Together with the National Board of Health, we will see if there are such reports in Sweden.
