C19 inflammation In thousands of US kids

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7NEWS: Mysterious COVID-related inflammation emerges in thousands of US children.
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/mysterious-covid-related-inflammation-emerges-in-thousands-of-us-children-c-4294655

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	7NEWS: Mysterious COVID-related inflammation emerges in thousands of US children. https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/mysterious-covid-related-inflammation-emerges-in-thousands-of-us-children-c-4294655
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EdwinSm, Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Joined: April 03 2013 Status: Offline Points: 24065	Post Options Post Reply Quote EdwinSm, Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 22 2021 at 12:34am
	My takings on the article.... It is quite rare (0,08% of Covid cases lead to MIS-C. But if it hits then 80% end in ICU (so far that is over 4,000 children in the USA) Case Fatality Rate, over time, is lowish (0,88%) but that is still devastating for the families. The good news is that as doctors have learned more about treating this, as the article reports, CFR has fallen from 2.4 to 0.7%. The bad news is that the virus can stay much longer in the body than nasal swabs can detect: "recently found evidence that the source of those symptoms could be the coronavirus, which can survive in the gut for weeks after it disappears from the nasal passages, "