{"id":5136,"date":"2021-02-25T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:47:53","slug":"characteristics-and-outcomes-of-us-children-and-adolescents-with-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-in-children-mis-c-compared-with-severe-acute-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/25\/characteristics-and-outcomes-of-us-children-and-adolescents-with-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-in-children-mis-c-compared-with-severe-acute-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristics and Outcomes of US Children and Adolescents With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Compared With Severe Acute COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a nationwide case series of 1116 patients &lt;21 years between March and October 2020, 539 were diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and 577 were diagnosed with COVID-19. Patients with MIS-C were more likely to be 6-12 years old (41% vs 19%), non-Hispanic Black (32% vs 22%), and have severe cardiovascular symptoms than respiratory symptoms (56% vs 9%) than COVID-19 patients. A higher proportion of MIS-C patients were admitted to the ICU (74% vs 44%), and a similar proportion died during hospitalization (1.9% vs 1.4%).<\/p>\n<p><i>Feldstein et al.\u00a0(Feb 24, 2021). Characteristics and Outcomes of US Children and Adolescents With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Compared With Severe Acute COVID-19. JAMA. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2021.2091\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2021.2091<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a nationwide case series of 1116 patients &lt;21 years between March and October 2020, 539 were diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and 577 were diagnosed with COVID-19. Patients with MIS-C were more likely to be 6-12 years old (41% vs 19%), non-Hispanic Black (32% vs 22%), and have severe cardiovascular symptoms&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/25\/characteristics-and-outcomes-of-us-children-and-adolescents-with-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-in-children-mis-c-compared-with-severe-acute-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}