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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, more than 3,000 kids have been diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a serious condition linked to coronavirus infection that involves organ dysfunction, low blood pressure, fever, and other symptoms, and 36 children have died from it.
According to an analysis of hundreds of cases of MIS-C published in JAMA Pediatrics on April 6, most of the patients didn’t report having been ill with their prior SARS-CoV-2 infection before developing the syndrome. Of 1,075 kids with MIS-C for whom the authors had information regarding their bout with COVID-19, just 265 reported a preceding sickness, and low blood pressure, shock, cardiac dysfunction, and admission to the ICU were more prevalent among those who didn’t.
“It means primary-care pediatricians need to have a high index of suspicion for this because Covid is so prevalent in the society and children often ...
