Possible coronavirus-linked inflammatory illness in kids identified in Virginia for first time

[Anonymous]

This happens with every virus. Why is everyone so confused about risk perception? I don’t get this. How do you all ever go about living? Literally, every flu season, there is a risk this additional reaction will occur. This is tiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The media has to keep us afraid.

The media has to keep us reading/watching their stuff. We apparently like to be afraid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happens with every virus. Why is everyone so confused about risk perception? I don’t get this. How do you all ever go about living? Literally, every flu season, there is a risk this additional reaction will occur. This is tiring.

This is a brand new threat. Other risks are familiar. Our brains look at those two situations differently. People under-react to familar threars and over-react to novel threats. With novel threats we can't make ourselves feel better by drawing on past experience. ("Well I have (or my kid has) caught the flu several times before, and I (she) recovered just fine".)

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/03/fear

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happens with every virus. Why is everyone so confused about risk perception? I don’t get this. How do you all ever go about living? Literally, every flu season, there is a risk this additional reaction will occur. This is tiring.

If a given children's hospital sees 5 cases of Kawasaki disease a year, practitioners are going to wonder what's up. Thre rate kids are presenting with this right now is highly unusual.

[Anonymous]

^^The rate

This happens with every virus. Why is everyone so confused about risk perception? I don’t get this. How do you all ever go about living? Literally, every flu season, there is a risk this additional reaction will occur. This is tiring.

This is a brand new threat. Other risks are familiar. Our brains look at those two situations differently. People under-react to familar threars and over-react to novel threats. With novel threats we can't make ourselves feel better by drawing on past experience. ("Well I have (or my kid has) caught the flu several times before, and I (she) recovered just fine".)

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/03/fear

It's not just that we think it's novel, but it actually is novel, and the sequelae in this aspect are indeed notably different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The media has to keep us afraid.

The media has to keep us reading/watching their stuff. We apparently like to be afraid.

The media made up this new syndrome? Are they responsible for the deaths from it, too?

A new pediatric syndrome has been discovered and you don’t want to know about it. That’s bizarre to me as a parent.

[Anonymous]

Front page of the WaPo is reporting 23 DMV area children are currently hospitalized with the syndrome at Children’s. Given that it attacks their hearts that’s. ... not good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Front page of the WaPo is reporting 23 DMV area children are currently hospitalized with the syndrome at Children’s. Given that it attacks their hearts that’s. ... not good.

The numbers are so small it should inform no public policy, but I guess wapo needed to scare some people

[Anonymous]

It would be nice if we had a feel for how many kids have been infected with the virus so we could figure out roughly how likely it is that a given child will develop this syndrome. Unfortunately our testing has been terrible and we have no idea.