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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Tue May 5, 2020, 05:57 AM May 2020

15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19

Source: New York Times

Fifteen children, many of whom had the coronavirus, have recently been hospitalized in New York City with a mysterious syndrome that doctors do not yet fully understand but that has also been reported in several European countries, health officials announced on Monday night.

Many of the children, ages 2 to 15, have shown symptoms associated with toxic shock or Kawasaki disease, a rare illness in children that involves inflammation of the blood vessels, including coronary arteries, the city’s health department said.

None of the New York City patients with the syndrome have died, according to a bulletin from the health department, which describes the illness as a “multisystem inflammatory syndrome potentially associated with Covid-19.”

Reached late Monday night, the state health commissioner, Dr. Howard A. Zucker, said state officials were also investigating the unexplained syndrome.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/children-Kawasaki-syndrome-coronavirus.html

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15 Children Are Hospitalized With Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19 (Original Post) Recursion May 2020 OP
Son of a b@#$%&.. Maxheader May 2020 #1
Slight correction its permanent lung damage for an unknown number of people as we do not know cstanleytech May 2020 #3
You hit the nail on the head. lark May 2020 #6
If Pfizer's comes through we'll have easy access to it. And focusing vaccines on the spikes may JudyM May 2020 #13
Yeah, the long-term impacts are completely opaque to us right now Recursion May 2020 #8
K&R! SheltieLover May 2020 #2
K&R. nt Ilsa May 2020 #4
reverse hemophiliac. pansypoo53219 May 2020 #5
This is terrible and heartbreaking RVN VET71 May 2020 #7
My good friend in the EU has a grandchild dx'd w/this CountAllVotes May 2020 #9
strange mutant bugs. killer hornets eating honey bees. Scary stuff going on. riversedge May 2020 #10
I just sent him the link CountAllVotes May 2020 #11
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #12

Maxheader

(4,366 posts)
1. Son of a b@#$%&..
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:12 AM
May 2020

Bad ass virus..blood clotting issues, permanent lung damage..

They can developed a vaccine, the question is when?

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
3. Slight correction its permanent lung damage for an unknown number of people as we do not know
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:38 AM
May 2020

what % of people that recover will have lung damage nor do we know how many will have negligible damage vs those that will have severe damage.

lark

(22,993 posts)
6. You hit the nail on the head.
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:18 AM
May 2020

The unknown is what is so freaking bad about this. Can you get re-infected as seems to have happened in Singapore and 1 other place - forget if it was SK or Japan, or were they not given good tests to begin with, how long are you protected by the antibodies, etc. etc. Can 1 vaccine be effective when there are 30 strains? Can we trust anything the drumpf admin. rolls out as a vaccine, seeing as drumpf will profit from it. You know this is true because he's refused to join the world effort which calls for everyone getting this for free or very low cost. He wants a super expensive vaccine that he will personally profit from, that's why he didn't join the world's efforts. Bet big money that we will not be able to get the world's vaccine here when it is developed, CDC and FDA will block it at his murderous oders.

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
13. If Pfizer's comes through we'll have easy access to it. And focusing vaccines on the spikes may
Tue May 5, 2020, 05:31 PM
May 2020

lend them to working on all the variants that gain cell entry that way. I haven’t seen anything saying that the spikes were different among the different variants, but could’ve missed that in the ongoing flood of developments.

RVN VET71

(2,686 posts)
7. This is terrible and heartbreaking
Tue May 5, 2020, 08:43 AM
May 2020

If it is related to C19, it is terrifying. Did all the children suffer from Covid-19?

Passing thought: Will the Lt. Governor of Texas and the rotund ex-governor of New Jersey explain how these kids' suffering is the price we all have to pay for a healthy stock-market?


CountAllVotes

(20,854 posts)
9. My good friend in the EU has a grandchild dx'd w/this
Tue May 5, 2020, 09:52 AM
May 2020

He is devastated!

I'd never heard of it admittedly.

Will send him this link.

Thank you very much.



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