15 states now investigating child illness possibly linked to coronavirus, Cuomo says

[Roc2020]

Source: CBS News

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that 14 other states are now investigating cases of a mysterious illness appearing in children that is potentially related to the coronavirus. The governor urged parents to "be aware" of the inflammatory syndrome believed to be connected to COVID-19

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kawasaki-disease-16-states-child-illness-coronavirus-cuomo/

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This virus is coming after the children now. The virus isn't a person, but it's attacks are vicious cruel and brutal. Truly disturbing developments.

[Voltaire2]

1. So the knucklehead knazis will have to revise

their “just die already geezers, we need haircuts”, to “just die already kids and geezer, we need haircuts”.

[Roc2020]

3. yah. very curious how the trump death cult will

spin children dying.

[SDJay]

5. They've Been Putting Them In Cages

for a long time now with no real backlash, so like absolutely everything else that these scum have done, I don't expect their useful idiot supporters to care one bit.

[Lars39]

6. They define the "least among us" as a fetus now.

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

[CaptYossarian]

4. Let's get this out for November: GOP PNA.

Post-Natal Abortions.


Really. The signs have always been there--
* Take away health care from hard working people who devote their life to making donors rich
* Grossly underfunding education
* Institutional racism for eternity
* Allowing med/pharma costs and college tuitions to explode
* Keeping minimum wage families just above volunteer status
* A Glock in every playpen
* Cutting all social programs while giving blank checks to the f**king Pentagon
* Opening up everything while COVID numbers are still rising

(And this is the so-called "family values" party.)

[Igel]

7. It's probably been affecting children straight along.

Just as it wasn't identified as a coronavirus officially until January, and we didn't officially know about widespread human-to-human transmission until late-ish January, or asymptomatic transmission until very late February or maybe March, so we're learning new things.

They'll have to go back at some point and re-evaluate the cause of some ped deaths. Probably not that many--it seems to mimic a rare condition, so those cases would stand out.

The key word is still "rare". Kids don't usually show the same severity of symptoms, so they're not tested as often. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page shows not many reported cases for 0-17 (although there's no reason to suspect that their infection rate is much lower than any other group). The reported reflect severity of the body's response more than it does the rate of infection, since without symptoms meriting tested most don't get through the screening to get tested. (Although you can say that until you're blue in the face and all most are predisposed to hearing is "zzzzzz positives zzzzz severity! zzzzzz infection!"

[Talitha]

8. Damn! Did the Repugs design this virus?

[Warpy]

9. The main things kids who develop it complain about

are having a hard time breathing and abdominal pain. This syndrome is incredibly rare, but complaints about those things after the child has had a bad cough should cause parents to watch the kid carefully and be prepared to call an ambulance if necessary. The first symptom, breathing, should trigger a call to the pediatrician.

There's another weird thing out there, toes are turning bright red and people are developing neuropathy in their feet. Short, breezy article at https://www.today.com/health/skin-symptoms-related-coronavirus-doctors-discuss-covid-toes-t178991

This thing seems to be kicking our butts seven ways from Sunday. I was lucky, just cough, headache, fever, tight chest, haven't noticed anything else.