Most children are asymptomatic or suffer only mild symptoms from Covid-19. Less than 1.5 per cent of all admissions to hospital with Covid-19 are of people under 20, and even fewer require admission to an intensive care unit. However, since April, coinciding with the spread of the virus, a small number of children have become unwell with symptoms and signs of inflammation.
Although doctors do not yet fully understand the relationship between Covid-19 and this new condition, or even whether there is one, they believe the syndrome, which has become known as PIMS-TS, could be linked to the virus.
WHAT IS PIMS-TS?
The newly discovered condition is a significant systemic inflammatory response, known as Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS).
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