Mary Wilson
Well-known member
by: Sareen Habeshian
Posted: Feb 12, 2021 / 06:08 PM PST/ Updated: Feb 12, 2021 / 06:21 PM PST
Los Angeles County health officials on Friday reported a more than 35% increase in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, in the last two weeks.
There were 15 additional cases reported by the county’s Department of Public Health Friday, bringing the total to 90 cases, including one child death. The death was reported in December at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, in a patient who had a “complex, preexisting cardiac condition.”
All 90 children with the rare syndrome linked to coronavirus were hospitalized, and 41% of them were treated in an intensive care unit.
... The total number of cases reported in the nation reached 2,060 as of Feb. 8, with 30 deaths. Cases have been reported in 48 states.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-...atory-syndrome-linked-to-coronavirus-in-kids/
Posted: Feb 12, 2021 / 06:08 PM PST/ Updated: Feb 12, 2021 / 06:21 PM PST
Los Angeles County health officials on Friday reported a more than 35% increase in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, in the last two weeks.
There were 15 additional cases reported by the county’s Department of Public Health Friday, bringing the total to 90 cases, including one child death. The death was reported in December at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, in a patient who had a “complex, preexisting cardiac condition.”
All 90 children with the rare syndrome linked to coronavirus were hospitalized, and 41% of them were treated in an intensive care unit.
... The total number of cases reported in the nation reached 2,060 as of Feb. 8, with 30 deaths. Cases have been reported in 48 states.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-...atory-syndrome-linked-to-coronavirus-in-kids/
