UK seeing a second wave of coronavirus, this one striking children
Mark Crispin Miller
'Very worried': Britain issues alert as possible new coronavirus syndrome emerges in children
London: Health officials in Britain warn that a potential new coronavirus-related syndrome is emerging in children, with a rise in cases prompting an urgent alert to doctors across the country.
The alert revealed an "apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care across London and also in other regions of the United Kingdom".
The NHS has issued an alert to doctors about a potential new coronavirus-related syndrome.
Cases have been building over the past three weeks, according to the warning from National Health Service officials and distributed to doctors by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society.
"There is a growing concern that a [COVID-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infectious pathogen associated with these cases," the advisory note said.
Click on the link for the rest.