Studies Detail Syndrome in Kids Linked to COVID
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| Nearly 300 children in 26 states fell ill with a mysterious COVID-related inflammatory condition between March and May, a pair of new studies show. Six of the children died. |
The studies are the most detailed accounts to date of the illness called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C. And they’re giving pediatricians and parents a better idea what the condition looks like when it strikes.
MIS-C is different than the severe course of COVID-19 that can imperil medically fragile children. MIS-C is a condition that seems to hit previously healthy kids days to weeks after they’ve fought off the virus that causes COVID-19.
The most common symptoms of MIS-C were fevers lasting an average of 5 days. More than 90% also had some kind of gastrointestinal complaint -- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and belly pain. Many kids also had heart problems in response to the syndrome, including coronary artery aneurysms, where a weak spot in the arteries that feed the heart balloons dangerously. The majority also had markers of body-wide inflammation, such as high levels of C-reactive protein in their blood.
More than two-thirds of the children in the study had some evidence that they’d come into contact with COVID-19, either because a blood test for the virus was positive or because they had been around a person who was known to be diagnosed with it.
The studies, which are published in The New England Journal of Medicine, are a snapshot of cases rather than an exact count.
“This is a minimum number. We didn’t collect cases from every ICU in America,” says Adrienne Randolph, MD, a critical care specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital. She says 53 intensive care units contributed data to the study.
Nearly 100 of the cases detailed in the studies came from New York state, which has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.
In the second study, researchers from the New York State Department of Health analyzed their cases. They conclude that MIS-C is clearly linked to COVID-19, with the peak of cases of MIS-C trailing the peak of COVID-19 cases seen in New York by 1 month.
They note that about a third of the children affected in New York had a preexisting condition, most commonly obesity.
The syndrome shares features of Kawasaki disease, a rare syndrome that strikes children after they’ve fought off an infection. Kawasaki disease can also affect the heart, and it often causes kids to get skin rashes; a swollen, red “strawberry tongue;” red, cracked lips; peeling skin on their hands or feet; and red eyes. The main risk of Kawasaki disease is inflammation of the blood vessels, particularly the ones that deliver blood to the heart.
In the New York study, researchers found that the features of MIS-C that most closely resemble Kawasaki disease were more common in younger children.
“It’s important to touch base with a pediatrician, especially this time of year, because there isn’t much going around right now,” Randolph says
With MIS-C and Kawasaki disease, early treatment is key. Prolonged inflammation can lead to permanent heart damage, if it isn’t caught and stopped.
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The new outbreak of 2 Florida vacationers infecting 38 people in Westchester County, NY, happened at an OUTDOOR graduation ceremony whereby people were attending in their cars, but with windows & some convertible roofs open.
ReplyDeleteBut Dokter Rabbiner Aaron Glatt goes behind everyone's back to endorse the Agudah Fresser desperate gambit to convince Cuomo of the bogus INDOOR bubble that the Fressers in turn borrowed from a fanatical Christian sect.
If the camps pooled money to pay Glatt for his 'trouble', is that illegal?
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ReplyDeleteLA Black Lives Matter Rally That Became a Pogrom
"It’s no coincidence that the riots escalated in Fairfax, the icon of the Jewish community. I saw the Watts & Rodney King riots. They never touched a synagogue. The graffiti showed blatant antisemitism. It’s Kristallnacht all over again," Rabbi Shimon Raichik, a Chabad Rabbi in Los Angeles, wrote.
These scenes from what the media has falsely called peaceful protests and the Jewish community in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles has called the Shavuos Riots, after the holiday which the worst of the attacks occurred, has fundamentally divided LA Jews.
Allyson Rowen Taylor, former Director of American Jewish Congress in LA, passed on an account of chants of, "F the police & kill the Jews."
"The antisemitic chants are not being reported. This is insane and very, very scary," she noted.
LA Jews, like millions of other Americans, found themselves deeply divided between standing with rioters or victims. And that unfortunately included some in the Modern Orthodox community.
After the attacks on synagogues in Fairfax, the major Modern Orthodox synagogues in nearby Beverlywood, the more modern part of the community, conducted Black Lives Matter sessions. Even though these same synagogues had to rush out their Torahs to protect them from a racist mob, they did not voice any pain or outrage, or offer solidarity to their fellow vandalized synagogues.
Unlike statements by Young Israel & the Agudah, the Orthodox Union failed to even address the attacks on synagogues. Local leaders urged Orthodox Jews, who were the victims of the racist violence, to atone for their imaginary crimes of racism & to take up the hateful slogan of Black Lives Matter.
On a street in Beverlywood, high school kids from one of the more liberal schools in the area chalked slogans denouncing “white silence” and the same police who keep the mansions of their parents safe.
In Fairfax, the more traditional Orthodox Jews, in black pants & white shirts, in dangling tzitzit & black hats, had cheered the LAPD and other law enforcement agencies as they rolled in after the pogrom, and Persian Jews handed out donuts to members of the National Guard.
There is an unbridgeable moral gap between the Chabad that opened its doors to the National Guard and the Modern Orthodox synagogues that opened their doors to black nationalists. And that gap in the Orthodox community can be seen in those teens cheering the LAPD in Fairfax and those chalking slogans against it in Beverlywood. That gap will determine which community has a future.
A community that teaches its children that they are privileged racists & that standing up for Israel and for their own homes & synagogues has to take a back seat to black nationalism, has no future.
As Rabbi Pini Dunner of Young Israel of N. Beverly Hills, wrote, "If supporting BLM means collective suicide, count me out."
Those Jews who had the courage to speak up have been told now is not a Jewish moment. This is a time for empathizing with criminals, not for standing up for victims of anti-Semitism.