All of the patients described in a bulletin issued Monday were admitted to intensive care and required cardiac or respiratory support, including five who required mechanical ventilation. None have died.
Britain’s national health authority issued a similar alert in late April warning of an “apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care across London and also in other regions.”
Doctors around the United States emphasized that the numbers, which represent children hospitalized in New York City from April 17 to May 1, are very small. They stressed that the vast majority of children infected with the novel coronavirus have mild symptoms or none at all. They also noted that they are early in their research and that it’s possible that the inflammatory condition may be caused by something other than covid-19.
Four of the children in New York City tested positive for the novel coronavirus while 11 did not.
“It would be a terrible mistake for parents to worry. The chance for a child up to this point of becoming critically ill is very, very rare,” said Jeffrey Burns, chief of critical care at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Craig Sable, associate division chief of cardiology at Children’s National Health System in the District, said that many of the children with similar illnesses described by European colleagues have recovered, but that it’s unclear whether they will suffer any longer-term consequences.
“The numbers are too small and follow-ups too short,” he said.
Kawasaki disease traditionally affects children younger than 5 and involves inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body. There’s no cure, but doctors have been very successful in using tools such as anticoagulants and antibodies to help most children recover.
Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for disease control for the New York City Health Department, urged doctors seeing such cases to report them immediately.
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