{"id":8931,"date":"2020-08-10T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:16:49","slug":"covid-19-associated-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-in-children-united-states-march-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/covid-19-associated-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-in-children-united-states-march-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19\u2013Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children \u2014 United States, March\u2013July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"8\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Godfred-Cato et al. describe symptoms, treatment, and outcomes for a cohort of 570 pediatric patients with COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIC-S). The median patient age was 8 years; 55% were male, 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% were Hispanic or Latino, 33% were non-Hispanic black, and 13% non-Hispanic white. Although about 2\/3 of patients did not report any underlying medical condition, among those who did, obesity was the most common.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"8\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 490 (86%) patients, the illness involved 4 or more organ systems. The most common symptoms were abdominal pain, vomiting, skin rash, diarrhea, hypotension, and conjunctival injection. Severe complications were common, with cardiac dysfunction (4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%), shock (35%), myocarditis (2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%), coronary artery dilatation or aneurysm (1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%), and acute kidney injury (18%) among the most prevalent.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ten\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the 570 patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(2%) died.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Godfred-Cato et al. (Aug 7, 2020). COVID-19\u2013Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children \u2014 United States, March\u2013July 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6932e2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6932e2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godfred-Cato et al. describe symptoms, treatment, and outcomes for a cohort of 570 pediatric patients with COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIC-S). The median patient age was 8 years; 55% were male, 41% were Hispanic or Latino, 33% were non-Hispanic black, and 13% non-Hispanic white. Although about 2\/3 of patients did not report any&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/10\/covid-19-associated-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-in-children-united-states-march-july-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}