The mercury reached the mid-90s on the sunbaked streets of Milwaukee's south side on Tuesday afternoon, but that didn’t stop neighborhood families and lots of little ones from turning out to celebrate the opening of the first Children’s Wisconsin clinic in the neighborhood.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) team
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From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a main understanding was that it usually doesn’t affect children as seriously as adults. While that remains true, in early May reports of a “mysterious illness” in some kids who have been exposed to COVID-19 started to emerge.
Known as “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children” (MIS-C), kids can present with many different symptoms, including a persistent high fever, swelling of the hands and feet, rash and red eyes and tongue. Some have also been found to have inflammation of many organs including the heart.