Dr Ronan Leahy, consultant in paediatric immunology and infectious diseases at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, expects more cases of PIMS
“If we see a wave of Covid-19 in the community, typically a number of weeks later, we see an uptick in PIMS-TS.
“It closely follows the community transmission of Covid-19. There was quite a big surge in Covid-19 in December, so I’m not surprised if there are more cases of PIMS-TS.
“Numerically, the more infections of Covid-19, the probability is we will see more PIMS-TS. We haven’t had any deaths (from PIMS) in Ireland but a number of cases have been ventilated, though not recently.”