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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And please don't recite "just 15 kids" because your Google search stopped with one article specific to New York City.

That's misleading and irresponsible. [/quote]

NY state has 300k+ confirmed cases. We can deduce from that fact that this isnt that prevalent given that only theyve found this in only 15 kids. [/quote]

1. How many  of those 300k+ confirmed cases are in children? You have the utterly wrong denominator -- adults don't get Kawasaki Syndrome.
2. As I have mentioned previously, typical Kawasaki is hard enough to recognize, and "atypical Kawasaki" presentations are much moreso.
3. There's a long subacute phase (up to 6 weeks), and an unknown latent period after whatever triggered it.
4. Most parents are only bringing children in when symptoms are severe for anything, right now.

That doesn't mean there is definitely a wave of very sick children just waiting to crest.

It absolutely, positively, undeniably means that minimizing this and not acknowledging a real and serious potential problem is noting but ignorance or malice. [/quote]

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