New Fears About Kids Getting Sick

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Last week, a five-year-old boy in New York died from Covid-19-related complications. Dozens of other children are becoming sick with a similar cluster of symptoms that mirror a rare condition called Kawasaki disease. The accepted wisdom had been that children could transmit the virus, but not get sick from it. The new illness is throwing that assumption into question. Jason Gale talked to the world’s leading expert on Kawasaki disease to help unpack what is going on.

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0:34.1	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 61 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.0	Our main story? For a long time, it seemed like the only reassuring thing about the virus
0:49.1	was that children were unlikely to get very sick from it. That idea is being challenged, though, as a new COVID-19-related illness has begun to appear in children around the world.
1:02.8	But first, here's what happened today. New York City, the epicenter of the outbrick in the U.S. is likely to stay locked down into June.
1:24.6	That's according to its mayor, Bill de Blasio. Some parts of the state will be
1:30.9	able to reopen from Friday. But the city hasn't made enough progress in cutting down on new cases.
1:38.9	That's even though hospital and intensive care admissions are falling.
1:50.4	De Blasio also said health officials will turn to dozens of small private neighborhood medical practices to aid in testing, contact tracing, and outpatient care.
1:56.4	Around the country, a promising new COVID-19 drug may be hard to come by.
2:03.1	Gilead Sciences is donating vials of its COVID-19 drug Remdesivir to countries around the world,
2:09.9	but the U.S. will get less than half.
2:14.0	Gilead is donating about enough to treat 78,000 hospitalized patients, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
2:23.3	But more than 300,000 patients in the U.S. are eligible for emergency access to the drug.
2:29.3	That won't be available through the end of July.
2:33.3	More data is showing the virus's disproportionate
2:37.0	effects. We know that Black Americans are dying at alarmingly high rates of COVID-19. But a new
2:45.1	Bloomberg news analysis shows that majority Black counties have triple the COVID-19 death rate of others.
2:53.1	The larger a county share of black residents, the worse the health outcomes get.
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