15 Children Hospitalized in NYC for Mysterious Illness With Potential Link to COVID-19

'The full spectrum of disease is not yet known,' NYC health official says

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) heavily infected with CCP virus particles (purple) isolated from a patient sample. Photo published on March 16, 2020. NIAID

Fifteen children, aged 2 to 15, many of whom had COVID-19 and were recently admitted to New York City hospitals, have been diagnosed with a mysterious illness that includes features of shock and Kawasaki disease, New York health authorities said.

In a May 4 release (pdf), the city’s Health Department described the unknown disease as a “multisystem inflammatory syndrome potentially associated with COVID-19.”