Understanding Covid and the associated post-infectious hyper-inflammatory state (PIMS-TS) in children.

Med Hypotheses

Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH, United States. Electronic address:

Published: November 2020

When SARS-CoV2 infection was first reported from China, very few children had severe lung or systemic disease. Approximately six weeks after the first adult cases were reported in the United Kingdom, a small subgroup of children of largely non-white backgrounds, presented with severe hyper-inflammatory disease, most likely associated with Covid. The possible reasons for this ethnic predilection are explored.

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