New syndrome in children thought to be linked to COVID-19 yields surprising test results

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.When frightening reports began to emerge in the spring of British and U.S. children falling severely ill with an inflammatory syndrome linked to COVID-19, Montreal’s Sainte-Justine Hospital was the first to report a cluster of similar cases in Canada.

The Sainte-Justine patients are only a small sample, but the results suggest MIS-C is perhaps rarer in Canada than it first appeared. MIS-C, which the Canadian Paediatric Society sometimes calls PIMS-TS, is generally marked by fever, intestinal distress, elevated inflammation levels on laboratory tests and the overlapping symptoms of toxic-shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that inflames the blood vessels, most dangerously in the heart.

But in Canada, no children are known to have died of MIS-C, and only a handful of those suspected of having it were in intensive care, pediatric hospitals and provincial health officials say. CHEO, formerly known as the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, is investigating more than 20 possible cases, all of them negative for an active infection, spokesman Paddy Moore said.

That has posed a problem in Canada, where blood tests for coronavirus antibodies are not routinely available, even though Health Canada has approved several.

In other words, just more medical community and media hysteria. Most of kids displaying signs of Kawasaki never had covid! The doctors aren't even moved by data anymore. With one insisting they are related without evidence, simply relying on coincidence as proof.

How reliable are antibody tests for Covid 19? Would it not be more conclusive to do pcr for the viral DNA?

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