Multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has afflicted 15 children in Los Angeles County and is tied to COVID-19 infection, the L.A. Times reported.
MIS-C, also known as PIMS (pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome), causes parts of the body to be inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, and intestines, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms are flu-like in that they are fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain, rash, bloodshot eyes, and exhaustion.
While MIS-C can prove fatal, none of those inflicted in L.A. have died, per the report.
L.A. County is roughly half Latino and 11 of the 15 children with MIS-C there were Latino, the Times reported. Nationally, 70% of the MIS-C cases were either Latino or Black.
MIS-C comes on about two to four weeks after COVID-19 infection, according to the report.
"Many questions remain about why some children develop it after a COVID-19 illness or contact with someone with COVID-19, while others do not," the CDC reported to the Times.
There have been 342 cases of MIS-C reported to the CDC and six deaths – almost one-third of those were in New York State (99) and two died in the state, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
The two deaths came after being admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain, fever, a high heart rate, and low blood pressure, per the journal.
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