By Deidre McPhillips, CNNPublished 11:00 AM EST, Thu January 5, 2023 Although still rare, MIS-C after Covid-19 has been more common and more severe than previously reported, and there are significant racial disparities in cases, according to a study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children – which primarily emerges after a Covid-19...
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More than 1 in 4 children hospitalized with COVID-19 or MIS-C have lingering complications more than two months later
by Children’s Hospital Boston Credit: CC0 Public Domain In one of the largest follow-up studies to date, involving 25 pediatric hospitals, more than a quarter of children and adolescents hospitalized with coronavirus infection early in the pandemic still had health problems two to four months later, either persisting symptoms or activity impairment. The study, led by...
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TEAMS FIND CLUES TO PUZZLING COVID-19 CASES IN KIDS
New findings may clarify the surprisingly small percentage of COVID-19 cases in children. In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Naftali Kaminski, professor of internal medicine and chief of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at Yale University, and colleagues share findings related to children’s surprising immunity to the virus. They...