LONDON - Doctors in northern Italy, one of the areas hardest hit by the new coronavirus, and in France have reported spikes in cases of a rare inflammatory syndrome in young children that appears similar to one reported in the United States, Britain and Spain, according to a report in The Lancet.
Reports of cases have raised concerns that Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, could pose a greater risk to children than had been understood.New York on Sunday said it was investigating up to 85 cases of children with the syndrome. So far, three of those children, who also tested positive for Covid-19, have died, and two more deaths are under review, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
Over the last five years, doctors there had seen a total of only 19 children with Kawasaki disease, according to the report published by The Lancet late on Wednesday . Scientists are still trying to determine whether the syndrome is linked with the new coronavirus because not all children with it have tested positive for the virus."The symptoms in children are different from adults with Covid-19 in whom the illness is more of a respiratory condition," said Dr George Ofori-Amanfo, division chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York.
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