loses their appetite and within days their liver severely in flamed. at least 98 children in this outbreak have been hospitalized 15 had liver transplant and five had died and there is no clear explanation why. the number of cases in the period of time and all over the world and also following this huge pandemic. do you draw a connection then between the pandemic and what s happening with these kids hepatitis? one of the things that i question was did these kids ever have covid? kids can go asymptomatic with covid but have all these inflammatory side effects. should these kids be getting tested for their antibodies to covid? i do think that s something we should be testing so we can no whether it is related to that. for many others, we don t