091 - Dr. Lasya Gaur, Pediatric Cardiologist, On What We Know—And Don't Know—About COVID-19-Related Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

At first, it seemed that COVID-19 was sparing children from critical—and even mild—illness. Then, doctors began connecting a constellation of symptoms in sick children to what is now known as Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, a rare and dangerous disease thought to be caused by an immune reaction to SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Lasya Gaur, a pediatric cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, talks with Stephanie Desmon about what we know and what we still need to learn about this disease, what parents should know, and what treatments have been helpful for children who become ill.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.u.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.9	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Lacia Gore,
0:46.8	a pediatric cardiologist at Johns Hopkins.
0:49.9	They discuss a rare and dangerous syndrome
0:52.2	being seen in some children with COVID-19 that
0:55.5	can result in multi-organ failure.
0:59.0	They talk about how worried parents should be about this syndrome.
1:02.7	This episode was recorded on May 22.
1:06.3	Let's listen.
1:07.3	Thanks so much for joining me.
1:09.3	Thanks for inviting me.
1:10.2	I'm looking forward to our discussion.
1:11.6	So up until recently, it looked like COVID-19 was sparing children completely.
1:17.6	And now doctors are seeing this multisystem inflammatory syndrome in some children.
1:23.6	First, I'd like to know, how do we know that it's linked to COVID-19? So, yes, I think you're asking the right questions.
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