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3 U.S. Children with COVID-19 Have Rare Inflammatory Syndrome

Julie Steenhuysen  |  

The team at Columbia has done some preliminary studies and found that at least two of the patients carried genes that could alter their immune response.

Of the three, two are critically ill and the third has been discharged.

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Dr. Gorelik says the pattern in some ways follows what is happening with some adult COVID-19 patients, who get very sick, begin to recover, and then have a secondary immune response.

Jane Burns, MD, director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego, says it’s unclear if the cases reported to date are related to COVID-19.

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A meeting of international experts is planned for this weekend to discuss the matter, she says.

Reference

  1. Jones VG, Mills M, Suarez D, et al. COVID-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case. Hosp Pediatr. 2020 Apr 7. pii: hpeds.2020-0123. [Epub ahead of print]

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