Many Children With Serious Inflammatory Syndrome Had No Covid Symptoms so Pediatricians Should Be Vigilant...

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Many children and teenagers who developed the mysterious inflammatory syndrome that can emerge several weeks after contracting the coronavirus never had classic Covid-19 symptoms at the time of their infection, according to the largest study so far of cases in the United States.

The study, led by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that in over 1,000 cases in which information about whether they got sick from their initial Covid-19 illness was available, 75 percent of the patients did not experience such symptoms. But two to five weeks later, they became sick enough to be hospitalized for the condition, called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), which can affect multiple organs, especially the heart.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/health/covid-children-inflammatory-syndrome.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage