Three New York children have died from rare illness tied to COVID-19: governor
People queue to collect food distribution at Harlem's Community Kitchen and Food Pantry service by the Food Bank for New York City during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., May 9, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
But Cuomo said he was increasingly worried that the syndrome posed a newly emerging risk for children, who had previously been thought to be largely immune to severe illness from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Calling it a “truly disturbing” development, the governor said people had been laboring under the impression that young people were not at risk from the coronavirus.
And he said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had asked New York to develop national criteria for identifying and responding to the syndrome.
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