What to Know About Kawasaki Disease, the Pediatric Inflammatory Condition Possibly Linked to COVID-19
, based on interviews with doctors in New York City and Long Island, suggests the number is closer to 50, but even this would be a small percentage.)are likely to get quite a bit of attention right now, given widespread public interest in the disease—but that doesn’t mean they’re reason to panic, or that doctors know exactly what’s going on. The fact that so few children get severe COVID-19 is encouraging, but it also means there’s not a lot of data on who gets sick and why.
“Some of these things are coming to the surface and becoming more prominent, but it is still extremely uncommon,” Mathew says. “A very small subset of the [pediatric] patients that develop COVID would end up having complicated disease.” Jones agrees, noting that parents should do what they always do if they notice something amiss: consult a doctor. But at least given what’s currently known, she says, “families and parents have enough to worry about right now, and I wouldn’t add to that list.”
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