Australian researchers uncover clue to rare and severe response to Covid in children

Breakthrough could improve diagnosis and lead to development of treatment for condition that has baffled doctors for two years

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In the first months after Covid emerged, doctors were baffled by rare and severe responses to the virus in some children, whose symptoms included lung disease, blood clotting and heart damage.

Two years later and researchers led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute [MCRI] in Melbourne have uncovered the proteins involved in these acute inflammatory responses in children.