The Independent: Coronavirus: Up to 100 UK children affected by rare disease linked to infection.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/kawasaki-syndrome-children-coronavirus-infection-immune-system-disease-a9512246.html - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/kawasaki-syndrome-children-coronavirus-infection-immune-system-disease-a9512246.html

Ouch.   This is sad news, as the one ray of hope is how children were supposed to be only lightly affected.  

There's so much we Don't know about this virus,

The main one is, 

Once infected are you immune for life, or is it like  the common cold coronavirus ,where we get it every year....

Scary thought.....

From the Independent article; the numbers of cases are very abnormal and there seems to be a relation with severe Covid19-outbreak in the area's.

Russell Viner, president of the RCPCH, said: “We understand there’s about 75 to 100 children across the UK who have been affected by this new syndrome.

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A new study in The Lancet, from doctors in Bergamo, one of the worst areas affected by coronavirus in Italy, found a similar syndrome among children there. There have been similar findings among children in New York.

The Italian doctors said they saw 10 children with symptoms similar to the inflammatory condition called Kawasaki disease.

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Only 19 children had been diagnosed with that disease in the five years to February 2020 but during the Covid-19 outbreak 10 children were reported in two months. Eight out of the 10 children tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies.

Kawasaki disease is a rare condition that normally affects children under the age of five – the Covid-19 syndrome has affected older children including teenagers.

It is not known what triggers the condition but is thought to be linked to an abnormal immune response to infection.

Three to four months in, cases in UK and 17 States in U.S. all found less than two weeks of the first recorded case.  My question is whether this is new (a mutation?) or something that has been being missed all along? 

Could it be it has a longer incubation in children.?

And then presents as what is occurring Now? 

Possibly.

It could also be an over-reaction in the young and an under-reaction in the old.

It could be something else entirely.

New virus, new questions.; few answers yet.