Rare Inflammatory Syndrome Seen in US Children With COVID-19

Children walk with their parents at promenade of Las Canteras beach after restrictions were partially lifted for children for the first time in six weeks, following the CCP virus (COVID-19) outbreak on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on April 26, 2020. Borja Suarez/Reuters

A rare inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 has been detected in children in the United States, according to doctors.

National Health Service (NHS) England sent an alert to doctors over the weekend before the Paediatric Intensive Care Society posted the notice on Twitter. It warned about an increase in cases of ill children with “common overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki disease with blood parameters,” and some of them tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.