Children Admitted to the Hospital With COVID-19 May Be Overcounted: Study
The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 may have been overcounted, according to a recent study published online in Hospital Pediatrics (pdf) on May 19.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine examined COVID-19 cases from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford for nine months between May 10, 2020, as the hospital began to test all of its inpatients for COVID-19, and Feb. 10, 2021.
During that time, 117 children had either tested positive for COVID-19 or were hospitalized for multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a rare condition that causes inflammation in different parts of the body, including the organs.
University of Michigan doctor answers parents’ questions about dangerous COVID condition in kids
Without treatment, MIS-C could be life-threatening in children
Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
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A girl has her temperature taken. (Pixabay)
ANN ARBOR – Although children are for the most part spared from developing severe illness from COVID-19, as time goes on, states are reporting more cases of a rare condition developing in children called multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C.
The condition causes vital organs and tissues to become severely inflamed, and it could be life-threatening without treatment.
The first cases emerged in May 2020 in the United States and Europe. Nearly a year on, 48 states have documented cases of the serious condition.