- The New York City Health Department distributed a health alert on Monday confirming that 15 children have been hospitalized with serious symptoms.
- More than half of the hospitalized children either tested positive for the novel coronavirus or had positive antibody tests, suggesting they were infected and have since recovered.
- Similar symptoms have been reported in other countries, including the United Kingdom.
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Throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic, we have been told repeatedly that the virus poses a much greater risk to the elderly and those who are immunocompromised than it does to young, healthy individuals. Everything we’ve seen over the past few months has backed up this assertion, but a frightening new development in New York City confirms that there is still much we don’t know about the virus, and that people of all ages need to be careful.
In a health alert disseminated this week, the New York City Health Department announced that 15 children have been hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms compatible with multi-system inflammatory syndrome. All the kids are between the ages of 2 and 15, and were admitted to the hospital between April 17th and May 1st. According to the alert, 10 of the 15 children either tested positive for the novel coronavirus or had positive antibody tests.
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15 children hospitalized in NYC with serious illness that could be tied to coronavirus originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 May 2020 at 15:09:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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