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Canadian doctors watching for inflammatory illness in children as part of COVID-19 diagnosis | CBC News

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May 14, 2020
Canadian doctors watching for inflammatory illness in children as part of COVID-19 diagnosis | CBC News

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.

Registered nurse Jonathan Fisk, left, talks to a mother holding her child after he and RN Patrick LaFontaine, centre, administered a COVID-19 test to a pre-screened pediatric patient outside a children’s urgent care facility on April 2 in Richardson, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press)

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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