The second disorder is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ARDS, a life-threatening respiratory failure as a result of serious COVID.By comparing blood samples from healthy children and those with serious COVID, we identified two sets of proteins that were switched on in kids with these frightening syndromes.Searching for the triggers We have spent the past two years trying to understand how childrens bodies deal with COVID, and why it is so different from adults.
Most children who catch COVID have mild illness and recover quickly. We identified key proteins in kids who’d had severe COVID with painful inflammation or respiratory failure.
An international team led by researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada found that kids older than five years of age and those with high blood markers for inflammation were at the highest risk of developing Covid-related MIS-in children (MIS-C).