Britain’s national health authority issued a worrisome alert about children, covid-19 and potential complications

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Britain's National Health Service is warning doctors and parents about an “apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care.' But experts stress that severe cases of covid are rare in children.

The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free.sign up for our daily Coronavirus Updates newsletterThroughout the nearly five months the world has been fighting covid-19, one of the most comforting — and baffling — aspects of thehas been its effect on children. Most children who are infected with the coronavirus remain asymptomatic or experience mild illness.

The National Health Service said the cases, seen during the past three weeks, have “common overlapping features” of toxic shock syndrome and another condition that results in dangerous blood vessel inflammation.The description of symptoms potentially could be related to blood clotting complications described in a small number of critically ill adults diagnosed with covid-19.

 

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