News from the Covid front
Not meaning to distract everyone from the riots, fires, and pRes trash talk, but I would like to place this here:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86484
So, I started trying to find out why the new MIS-C disease is related to CV19. It turns out that it is probably because they are finding evidence of exposure to cv19 in the victims. But, they don't know for sure.
Children present with a much more severe form of Kawasaki Disease, are somewhat older (8 yrs vs 4 yrs) and have an added symptom of abdominal pain. Average dx is on day 6 of a high fever.
The rate of cases is quite high in comparison to all the cases of Kawasaki in the last 5 years. So, while it isn't as bad as the CV19 pandemic, it is alarming because it can affect kids under 2 years of age.
Parents of kids unprotected because they are "too young" to get CV19 need to familiarize themselves with the s/s of Kawasaki.
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I had no idea that coronaviruses, such as the common cold, had been implicated in Kawasaki disease for so long.
