OAK LAWN, Ill. (WLS) An inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 that is a mystery to most doctors nearly claimed the life of a young girl from northwest Indiana.
Janiya Johnson, 5, of Portage, Indiana was diagnosed a couple of months ago with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C.
MIS-C is a rare condition diagnosed that typically occurs four to six weeks after a child is exposed to COVID-19. Janiya is feeling better now, but her parents say she was lucky that she was diagnosed when she was. The doctor told us maybe if we had waited one more day, she possibly, they possibly couldn t have done anything for her. So that s a scary moment, said Oshunda Johnson, her mother.