COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children — United States, March–July 2020 | MMWR

COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children — United States, March–July 2020 | MMWR

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) — COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children — United States, March–July 2020 — In April 2020, during the peak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Europe, a cluster of children with hyperinflammatory shock with features similar to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome was reported in England. The patients’ signs and symptoms were temporally associated with COVID-19 but presumed to have developed 2–4 weeks after acute COVID-19; all children had serologic evidence of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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