Scientists have uncovere a link between Covid-19 and post-Covid childhood illness. Their work may improve treatments for similar conditions.
Dr. Aaron Bodansky, 37, was finishing his pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. He remembers being relieved that kids seemed to be spared from the worst of covid.
“It was tough, because we really didn’t understand what it was,” he said, adding that for the parents of kids who end up in the ICU, “it’s maybe the worst day of their life.”Bodansky said that, luckily, the syndrome presented similarly to another condition called Kawasaki disease, for which safe and effective treatments exist to “calm your immune system.” Watching children recover as they began to receive treatment was heartening, Bodansky said.
MIS-C grew rarer over the course of the pandemic, Bodansky said, and now occurs mostly in unvaccinated children. While the precise knowledge of how covid and MIS-C are linked may not be used to develop treatments, he said, the paper demonstrates how to experimentally show a link between a virus and a subsequent autoimmune condition. Later, this could lead to better treatments for other conditions with a “similar story.
Bodansky splits his time between research and seeing patients. He showed me his recently received UCSF professor badge, and talked about his plans to focus on this kind of research. He’s excited to apply findings from the covid and MIS-C work to other childhood illnesses.
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