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After 3 Children Die, a Race to Investigate a Baffling Virus Syndrome
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-3-children-die-a-race-to-investigate-a-baffling-virus-syndrome/ar-BB14tE5H?ocid=msedgntp
Joseph Goldstein and Jesse McKinley 4 hrs ago
Blood will be collected from dozens of children in New York to determine whether they share any genetic variations that might make them susceptible to a mysterious syndrome linked to the coronavirus.
Tissue samples from at least one of the three patients to have died from it ages 5, 7, and 18 have been sent to a public health laboratory for intensive testing.
A team of more than 30 disease detectives epidemiologists, clinicians, and statisticians is poring over thousands of pages of medical records.
Even as doctors and scientists around the world race to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, New York State has become the center of a parallel effort to investigate an unnerving aspect of the outbreak: an illness that is sickening a small but growing number of children.
The ailment has now been reported in at least 161 children in New York, making the states caseload one of the largest publicly reported anywhere. Hundreds of other children across the United States and in Europe have also been sickened with the illness, now called multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
The syndrome can be characterized by severe inflammation of the heart, blood vessels, the gastrointestinal tract or other organs, believed to be caused by a reaction to the coronavirus. The inquiries into why it is occurring, and whether a treatment can be found, could have an impact on how the authorities handle the reopening of schools and other activities for children...................................
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After 3 Children Die, a Race to Investigate a Baffling Virus Syndrome (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2020
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Skittles
(153,122 posts)1. I thought that was the only good thing about that g.d. virus
that it tended to bypass the children
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,319 posts)2. More about that:
wnylib
(21,346 posts)3. Yes, unfortunately it turns out that children
are not being spared in these infections as we thought they were. Even more disturbing is that they don't seem to have the virus because they don't have the obvious symptoms. But when they showed up in hospitals with organ failures, somebody decided to test them for cv 19. All of them tested positive for antibodies.
There is a cluster of symptoms to watch for, including fever, rash, and abdomonal cramping.
So we were wrong to think that children and younger
people are safe from serious infections and consequences. They have them, but they manifest differently in children for some reason. Researchers are frantically trying to find out why and how to treat them to prevent the deaths.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,766 posts)4. K&R