Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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That makes me wonder about using a Neti pot to flush out sinuses.Maybe a good idea to do after a town trip.Sterile water of course.

It would be great if they labelled the states, because I have no clue for most of them. ^



Which one is the squarish darkest pink one, kind of above Texas?

Whoops.

I was actually absent from school because of pneumonia, for the span of time when they taught US Geography.

This story already did the rounds AS....the three children may have had predisposition - the cause of Kawasaki disease remains unknown. It is most likely an abnormal response by the immune system of some children to a common germ (e.g. COVID-19). Kawasaki disease is not contagious to other children and is likely genetic.

State health officials are investigating the deaths of two children to see if they had a coronavirus-linked illness that has claimed the lives of at least three other youngsters, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday.

Hospitals in New York have reported 85 cases of the illness, known as pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said a team of health experts will evaluate the information for each of those cases.

The disease causes inflammation of the blood vessels and complications that can include inflamed heart muscles and breathing problems, experts said.

Most of the sickened children either tested positive for the coronavirus or for antibodies to the virus, officials said. Similar cases have emerged in Europe.

Symptoms include fever, rash and severe abdominal pain.

“These children did not present with respiratory illnesses,” Zucker said, referring to the common symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “We are trying to figure out what is happening … the CDC is sending up people as well.”

Cuomo said New York officials are reaching out to other states to see if they have similar cases.

“Nobody knows that it wasn’t here and just not diagnosed because it doesn’t look like a COVID case,” Cuomo said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said 38 cases of the syndrome have been diagnosed in New York City, and an additional nine are being reviewed.

“What it does is, basically in a child’s body, triggers intensive, almost overwhelming immune system response and that actually causes harm to the body,” the mayor said Sunday morning at his daily COVID-19 briefing.

The city identified the syndrome just in the past few days, de Blasio said. Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot said the syndrome was first identified in Britain two or three weeks ago.

“We are still learning how it manifests,” Barbot said.

That makes me wonder about using a Neti pot to flush out sinuses.Maybe a good idea to do after a town trip.Sterile water of course.

“These children did not present with respiratory illnesses,” Zucker said, referring to the common symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “We are trying to figure out what is happening … the CDC is sending up people as well.

Interestingly the symptoms don't correspond with COVID-19

There are actually diseases that kill children every year that are poorly understood in terms of their transmission/aetiology - classic is Lyme disease which is thought to be from ticks. These "other' illnesses are statistical "noise" which might be conflating/elevating the risk COVID-19 poses for children.

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Given we know NY was ground zero for the spread of COVID-19 across the rest of America