Children are Falling Ill With a Baffling Ailment Related to Covid-19

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Children Are Falling Ill With a Baffling Ailment Related to Covid-19

No children are known to have died so far, but several have ended up in intensive care with mysterious symptoms that include enlarged coronary arteries.

Jayden Hardowar, 8, from Queens, initially had only a mild fever, but eventually needed to be placed in an intensive care unit after suffering from a mysterious illness that appears to be related to the coronavirus.

One child, 8 years old, arrived at a Long Island hospital near death last week. His brother, a boy scout, had begun performing chest compressions before the ambulance crew arrived.

In the past two days alone, the hospital, Cohen Children's Medical Center, has admitted five critically ill patients - ages 4 to 12 - with an unusual sickness that appears to be somehow linked to Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. In total, about 25 similarly ill children have been admitted there in recent weeks with symptoms ranging from reddened tongues to enlarged coronary arteries.

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, most infected children have not developed serious respiratory failure of the kind that has afflicted adults. But in recent weeks, a mysterious new syndrome has cropped up among children in Long Island, New York City and other hot spots around the country, in an indication that the risk to children may be greater than anticipated.

The number of children in the United States showing signs of this new syndrome - which first was detected in Europe last month - is still small. None is known to have died, and many have responded well to treatment.

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