Coronavirus claims life of 11-year-old with no preexisting conditions

[Chris Smith]

• A study shows that coronavirus symptoms in kids should be taken seriously as they can evolve towards a potentially life-threatening syndrome.
• Researchers from Brazil found that an otherwise healthy 11-year-old patient who contracted the virus died following cardiac complications after the virus had reached the heart directly.
• The patient developed a syndrome seen in some children infected with the novel coronavirus, as the virus affected a variety of organs. The inflammatory changes in the heart tissue led to heart failure and death.

Opinions that children can’t get infected, infect others, or suffer severe COVID-19 complications are misguided or outright deceitful. As schools started reopening, more and more evidence is coming in that kids of all ages get infected, and some of them develop larger quantities of the virus than adults.

Even though most children will survive COVID-19, some could still develop complications, including the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) syndrome that’s secondary to COVID-19 which pediatricians began reporting several months ago. Some of these children will die as a result of the multisystemic complications that can appear. One such heartbreaking case occurred in Brazil, with doctors documenting the case of an 11-year-old girl who died after 28 hours in the hospitals. The researchers say the main reason she died is the virus reaching the heart, although SARS-CoV-2 was also present in other organs as well.

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