Post-COVID syndrome severely damages children's hearts

[DBoon]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-post-covid-syndrome-severely-children-hearts.html

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions, said the senior author of a medical literature review published Sept. 4 in EClinicalMedicine, a journal of The Lancet.

Case studies also show MIS-C can strike seemingly healthy children without warning three or four weeks after asymptomatic infections, said Alvaro Moreira, MD, MSc, of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Moreira, a neonatologist, is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the university's Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine.

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The team reviewed 662 MIS-C cases reported worldwide between Jan. 1 and July 25. Among the findings:

71% of the children were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
60% presented with shock.
Average length of stay in the hospital was 7.9 days.
100% had fever, 73.7% had abdominal pain or diarrhea, and 68.3% suffered vomiting.
90% had an echocardiogram (EKG) test and 54% of the results were abnormal.
22.2% of the children required mechanical ventilation.
4.4% required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
11 children died.

[Kali]

1. what percent of total cases is that 662 number?

too lazy to read whole article this morning (since I was running a fever yesterday and last night and of course have paranoia about what it was!!! )

[SheltieLover]

2. Please read STATNEWS - link below

Talks about how covid literally chops up heart tissue!

Is THIS why chump insisted schools open?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214027620