The suspected Canadian cases have not been as severe as those reported in New York and London, where a handful of children have died
Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, shown here April 5, 2018, are examining an estimated 20 possible cases of the mysterious inflammatory syndrome linked to COVID-19.Doctors in four provinces are now investigating cases of a mysterious syndrome in children that is believed to be linked to the coronavirus, but the suspected Canadian cases have not been as severe as those reported in New York and London, where a handful of children have died.
Hundreds of children in New York and Europe have been sickened by the baffling new multisystem inflammatory syndrome, which features the overlapping symptoms of toxic shock, upset stomach and Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that inflames blood vessels, most dangerously in the heart. In Canada, doctors are still trying to determine what connection the local cases might have to the coronavirus – a task that is proving difficult because antibody tests are not yet available, despite Health Canada having approved two such tests.
Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said Wednesday that while little is known about the illness, it appears the inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 shows up several weeks to a month after a child or adolescent is infected with the coronavirus."Typically, a child who has this particular syndrome, would not be considered – again, for what we know right now – to be infectious or infected with COVID at that point.
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