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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Thanks for this distinction.  This is why they gave it a different name.[/quote]

Sorry - but this is more fear porn. See: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86484.  Despite the fear porn headline the crucial text is as follows:

Unlike COVID-19, where pre-existing conditions seem to play a role in severity of infection, Choueiter said most children presenting with this syndrome were previously healthy, and "most were not aware they had COVID."  "Some had a positive PCR test, some had a negative PCR test. Among the negative tests, some had a positive test for antibodies, which suggests they were exposed to the virus weeks back," she noted.  Choueiter noted kids can be hospitalized in the ICU for 1 to 2 weeks for this syndrome, or in less serious cases, a few days.  "So far, most who have been admitted have gone home," she said.

So no real evidence this has anything to do with covid.  Plus numbers so small that no statistical conclusions can sensibly be drawn in any case.

Haven't you got tired of the endless evidence free fear mongering yet?  Fatality rates of 10%, millions of deaths in the US, deadly mutant strains, you don't get immune so you can get it twice, etc. etc.  This is just the latest attempt to sell newspapers and/or justify the lockdown, and not even a good one at that.  It will turn out to be as much nonsense as all the other fear porn that's been purveyed by our proud, free, gallant reprsentatives of the noble fourth estate.[/quote]

Out of the millions of children who have by now been exposed to covid, there has not been a single death from this syndrome.  Utter BS.[/quote]

“Three children, a 5-year-old boy in New York City, a 7-year old in Westchester County and a teenager in Suffolk County have died.

It appears the three children did not have underlying conditions, which are often associated with the patients most gravely affected by COVID-19.“

https://abc7ny.com/pediatric-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-pmis-symptoms-covid-children-coronavirus/6169496/
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