Mysterious symptoms associated with COVID are observed in children in New York: who is at risk

New York, at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, faced a new challenge: about a hundred children and adolescents are struggling with a mysterious disease. Doctors believe this is due to COVID-19. The publication shared the details Daily voice.

New York faced a new problem: in children and adolescents, inflammatory syndromes, presumably associated with coronavirus, began to appear.

This was stated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during his daily briefing on May 12, which was held at the Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The State Department of Health is currently investigating about 100 such cases in patients under the age of 21 years. The symptoms they have are similar to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome.

“Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PMIS) is a new symptom appearing in children in New York and elsewhere,” officials said. "Some doctors believe that this disease is related to the presence of COVID-19 in patients, but the connection is still not clear."

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Three deaths have been reported among children with PMIS in New York over the past few weeks: a 5-year-old boy in New York City, a 7-year-old boy in Westchester, and an 18-year-old girl in Suffolk County died.

“At first we thought the virus didn’t affect children, but now we are dealing with an alarming problem,” Cuomo said. - We have seen about 100 cases of inflammatory diseases in children that appear to be caused by the COVID virus. This is just the beginning, and New York is leading the way for such cases. ”

The governor added that this is "a really alarming situation."

“I know that parents across the state and country are concerned about this,” he said.

Who is at risk

Among children struggling with mysterious diseases, almost 60% are aged 5 to 14 years. In general, the picture is as follows.

The health department should mandate that hospitals test children with symptoms of the emerging disease first, Cuomo said. “If we have this problem in New York, then it’s probably also in other states, and in other states it hasn’t been diagnosed yet,” he said.

According to the governor, New York is making "real progress." “But this virus tricked us at every turn. "We followed him from the very beginning, and he still manages to surprise us."

Recommendations for parents

Parents should consult a doctor immediately if they observe the following symptoms in their children:

• prolonged fever (more than five days);
• it is difficult to make a child eat or he is too sick to drink;
• severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, or vomiting;
• discoloration of the skin - becomes pale, blotchy and / or blue;
• trouble breathing or he is breathing very fast;
• spasmodic pains in the heart or chest;
• decreased amount or frequency of urination;
• lethargy, irritability or confusion.

According to the Department of Health, over the past 24 hours, 1 New Yorkers have been tested on COVID-225. 113 19 people received a positive virus test result. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in New York in early March, 338 people have died from the coronavirus.