Two more children's deaths from the rare inflammatory condition were reported a day after a 5-year-old's death became the first in the U.S. from the condition.
Two more children in New York state have died of an inflammatory syndrome believed to be related to the coronavirus, raising the toll to three after the death of a 5-year-old boy announced Friday became the first such fatality in the U.S.
"We thought initially that young people were not affected by COVID-19," the governor added."We're not so sure that that is the fact anymore." Nationwide, nearly 100 children have been diagnosed with the condition. At least seven states besides New York — California, Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington — as well as Washington, D.C., have reported cases.
"This is an extremely rare and previously unknown presentation of COVID-19 in children," the Mount Sinai Health System said in a statement Friday about the death of the 5-year-old boy, the first known death from the condition in the U.S.Many, but not all, children with the condition have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
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