New review delves into inflammatory syndrome tied to Covid-19 in kids

Early research showed that kids with Covid-19 tended not to get severely ill. But in May, doctors reported seeing children with a disease described as “Kawasaki-like”: high fevers, rashes, swollen extremities, and issues in a number of organs, including the heart. A new review reveals more about this new coronavirus-associated condition, known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C. The authors looked at data from 662 patients in 39 observational studies. Among the more worrisome findings was that the syndrome could appear in kids whose Covid-19 had been asymptomatic. They found that 35% of the patients were Black, while 28% were white. Although 71% of cases were serious enough to require the ICU, 1.7% of the total patients died.