UK says some children have died from syndrome linked to COVID-19

 

FILE PHOTO: Parents walk their children to school on the last day before their official closure, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in West London, Britain, March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Some children in the United Kingdom with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to COVID-19, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday.

 

Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.

 

Doctors in northern Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit areas during the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under age 9 with severe cases of what appears to be Kawasaki disease, more common in parts of Asia.

 

“There are some children who have died who didn’t have underlying health conditions,” Hancock told LBC Radio.

 

“It’s a new disease that we think may be caused by coronavirus and the COVID-19 virus, we’re not 100% sure because some of the people who got it hadn’t tested positive, so we’re doing a lot of research now but it is something that we’re worried about.

 

“It is rare, although it is very significant for those children who do get it, the number of cases is small,” Hancock said.

 

Kawasaki disease, whose cause is unknown, often afflicts children aged under 5 and is associated with fever, skin rashes, swelling of glands, and in severe cases, inflammation of arteries of the heart.

 

There is some evidence that individuals can inherit a predisposition to the disease, but the pattern is not clear.

 

Parents should be vigilant, junior British interior minister Victoria Atkins said.

 

“It demonstrates just how fast moving this virus is and how unprecedented it is in its effect,” Atkins told Sky News.

 

Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, the president of the Royal College of Nursing, said she had heard reports about the similarity between cases in infants and Kawasaki syndrome.

 

“Actually there’s far too little known about it and the numbers actually at the moment are really too small,” told Sky News. “But it is an alert, and it’s something that’s actually being explored and examined by a number of different researchers.”

 

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Some form of mutation of the coronavirus that attacks children is probably the most scary scenario imaginable. Lets keep our fingers crossed they find the cause of this quickly and remedy.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/exclusive-national-alert-as-coronavirus-related-condition-may-be-emerging-in-children/7027496.article

More fear factor... They think it's linked but not sure !! So why say 

 

13 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

“It demonstrates just how fast moving this virus is and how unprecedented it is in its effect,” Atkins told Sky News.

 

Pure scaremongering by the government. People will be asking to be locked up longer now...

 

14 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

More fear factor... They think it's linked but not sure !! So why say 

 

 

Pure scaremongering by the government. People will be asking to be locked up longer now...

 

The alert was sent to doctors only in the UK, the news was because of reporters asking the government. Scaremongering or alerting doctors to a potential serious problem that they should be aware of?

16 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

So why say 

Because "Parents should be vigilant, junior British interior minister Victoria Atkins said."

 

Maybe Victoria would be so kind to explain what sort of vigilance should parents adopt.

Well if this was not an engineered virus then mother nature obviously thinks it must be time to purge the population of the world, and not just one group, but from all ages up.

11 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The alert was sent to doctors only in the UK, the news was because of reporters asking the government. Scaremongering or alerting doctors to a potential serious problem that they should be aware of?

 

Scaremongering by Victoria Atkins... She wasn't addressing doctors but the public I believe...

1 hour ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Scaremongering by Victoria Atkins... She wasn't addressing doctors but the public I believe...

When asked by reporters, please read my post more accurately. Besides which, your assumption that this is scaremongering is the last thing I thought about and sounds like your paranoid. Take it for what it is, alerting doctors for a potential problem, if they had not done that they would have failed in their duty.

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Scaremongering by Victoria Atkins... She wasn't addressing doctors but the public I believe...

Being a father of 5, it's certainly working on me.

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

More fear factor... They think it's linked but not sure !! So why say 

 

 

Pure scaremongering by the government. People will be asking to be locked up longer now...

 

Read the extract posted by BKK Brian, a clear and unequivocal reference to COVI-19.

 

People will be wanting to know the risk this disease poses to children.

 

This news also underlines the insanity of assuming this disease is only a fatal risk to the old and Thor with underlying health issues.

 

 

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Scaremongering by Victoria Atkins... She wasn't addressing doctors but the public I believe...

What is your argument for not informing the public of these risks?

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

What is your argument for not informing the public of these risks?

 

Because they have no evidence yet that it's linked to Covid, so at a time when people are frightened of their own shadows, I think it's irresponsible to insinuate that this virus is mutating into a child killer...

Just my opinion of her quote... 

41 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Because they have no evidence yet that it's linked to Covid, so at a time when people are frightened of their own shadows, I think it's irresponsible to insinuate that this virus is mutating into a child killer...

Just my opinion of her quote... 

Also reported in children with Coronavirus's back in 2005. 

 

Association between a Novel Human Coronavirus and Kawasaki Disease (peer reviewed) https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/191/4/499/937208

 

In conclusion, this case-control study suggests that there is an association between HCoV-NH infection and Kawasaki disease. Further studies—such as prospective cohort studies, seroepidemiological investigations, and investigations of inflamed tissue for the presence of virus—are required to determine the precise role played by HCoV-NH in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease and to determine whether other infectious agents can also trigger this syndrome.

 

 

9 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

this case-control study suggests that there is an association

 

Suggests, association... ????

Scaremongering by MS Atkins...

50 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Suggests, association... ????

Scaremongering by MS Atkins...

I relent, yes it is scaremongering to you but scientific research to the world and necessary awareness and precautions to the doctors who actually deal with the young patients.

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I relent, yes it is scaremongering to you but scientific research to the world and necessary awareness and precautions to the doctors who actually deal with the young patients.

 

I'm not disagreeing with you that it's necessary to research it and doctors made aware of a possible link.. 

However, what she said, was pure scaremongering and a dangerous thing to do.. IMO

 

“It demonstrates just how fast moving this virus is and how unprecedented it is in its effect,” Atkins told Sky News.

3 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

I'm not disagreeing with you that it's necessary to research it and doctors made aware of a possible link.. 

However, what she said, was pure scaremongering and a dangerous thing to do.. IMO

 

“It demonstrates just how fast moving this virus is and how unprecedented it is in its effect,” Atkins told Sky News.

I think that to say that this virus is fast moving, and very unusual if not unprecedented in it's effect is a simple statement of fact. 

 

If there are additional potential sufferers that we were not aware of, or possible mutations, for god's sake we need to know and do the appropriate research. News will inevitably get out, but to call it scaremongering is lame. We are adults, if we can't face up to threats without being scared we are no credit to the human race. 

17 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

More fear factor... They think it's linked but not sure !! So why say 

 

 

Pure scaremongering by the government. People will be asking to be locked up longer now...

 

Yes, best to dig another couple of feet deeper before you put your head in the sand. 

 

You really can't think of a reason why health authorities wouldn't be notifying people about a potential link between something affecting children and the COVID-19 virus? Better to just ignore it and invent potential (but untested) cures and make optimistic projections? You don't think that a new and unusual symptom appearing in children linked to inflammation during the time of the novel coronavirus is not noteworthy and the public shouldn't be informed about it?

15 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Read the extract posted by BKK Brian, a clear and unequivocal reference to COVI-19.

 

People will be wanting to know the risk this disease poses to children.

 

This news also underlines the insanity of assuming this disease is only a fatal risk to the old and Thor with underlying health issues.

 

 

Thor? I thought the Scandinavians had got away lightly from this so far!

I am coming to the conclusion that there is a body of people out there who are trying to make everyone afraid that they are still alive ????

   There is some info about inflammation leading to blood clots that is also a factor in this story  

21 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

More fear factor... They think it's linked but not sure !! So why say 

 

 

Pure scaremongering by the government. People will be asking to be locked up longer now...

 

I think it is partly scaremongering but for good reason.  People are tired of the lockdown and every day more and more people are breaking it in one way or another.  The government and Johnson in particular are panicking about the isolation not being adhered to and then the virus taking hold again.  Our death toll is going to be high and the governments initial response was, to a great extent, to blame for that.

 

The government can take a stronger approach and put soldiers on the streets and come down hard on lockdown offenders with higher fines and threats of imprisonment but they really don't want to do that.  At this time when they are trying to find a way to ease the lockdown and let some businesses re-open, they need people to work with them and not against them. 

19 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Read the extract posted by BKK Brian, a clear and unequivocal reference to COVI-19.

 

People will be wanting to know the risk this disease poses to children.

 

This news also underlines the insanity of assuming this disease is only a fatal risk to the old and Thor with underlying health issues.

 

 

A clear and unequivocal reference. . . "researchers believe is linked to COVID 19". Yeah, and some people believe the earth is flat and the moon made of green cheese.

 

Not you, of course, Chompers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

50 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

I think it is partly scaremongering but for good reason.  People are tired of the lockdown and every day more and more people are breaking it in one way or another.  The government and Johnson in particular are panicking about the isolation not being adhered to and then the virus taking hold again.  Our death toll is going to be high and the governments initial response was, to a great extent, to blame for that.

 

The government can take a stronger approach and put soldiers on the streets and come down hard on lockdown offenders with higher fines and threats of imprisonment but they really don't want to do that.  At this time when they are trying to find a way to ease the lockdown and let some businesses re-open, they need people to work with them and not against them. 

Further more, in Germany where they have started to ease the lockdown, the cases of Covid-19 are rising again.

22 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The alert was sent to doctors only in the UK, the news was because of reporters asking the government. Scaremongering or alerting doctors to a potential serious problem that they should be aware of?

Let's not be naive. The leak virus never dies.