Doctors across Canada are on the look out for children with a rare, inflammatory illness as part of expanded surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pediatricians and other health-care providers across Canada are on the look out for children with a rare, inflammatory illness as part of expanded surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, said Wednesday that clinicians have been alerted to reports of the condition, called multisystem inflammatory vasculitis or variants of Kawasaki Syndrome.
“It’s really an alert to clinicians to think about what might be the underlining causes, because it’s not specific to COVID-19,” Tam told reporters.
“But it is important to catch people who are presenting with these syndromes and further determine whether COVID-19 could be a cause.”
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