At least five children — three in New York, and one each in France and Britain — have died from a COVID-19-related syndrome that inflames the immune system
Doctors in Bergamo, northern Italy reported a 30-fold increase in the incidence of severe inflammatory disorders among young children, with ten cases from mid-February to mid-April as compared to 19 during the previous five years, according to a study this week in The Lancet. Also compared to toxic shock syndrome, PIMS leads to inflamed blood vessels and, in some cases, damage to the heart.
“The population we are seeing are seven or eight through to 17,” Karyn Moshal, a paediatric infectious disease consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London told BMJ, a medical journal. “While very few tested positive for the virus on swabs, the majority tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies,” which means they caught the virus without knowing it, she told BMJ.
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