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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/children-Kawasaki-syndrome-coronavirus.html[/quote]

This article is fear porn.

Kawasaki disease is well understood.  It affects a very small number of children, mostly under 5, each year and can occur in response to many viruses, seemingly including covid-19.  It is well understood, eminently treateable and curable, and has no lasting effects.[/quote]

The article may be fear porn, but this post is misinformed.

The KD we are seeing post-COVID also has elements of Toxic Shock Syndrome and Macrophage Activation Syndrome.  These kids are MUCH sicker than the standard KD patient (most are requiring PICU-level care, which is uncommon in KD) and skew older (elementary & middle-school aged), and they are NOT responding to the common KD treatments of IVIG and high-dose ASA.

The number of KD patients still represents a small proportion of the population and thus should not necessarily impact the decision to return to play; however, it is incorrect to say that this condition is "eminently treateable (sp) and curable"[/quote]

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