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There is "growing concern" that a serious coronavirus-related condition may be emerging in children, UK doctors say. Doctors in the UK have reported a serious condition emerging in children that could be related to the coronavirus, with growing numbers requiring intensive care. A "significant alert" sent to general practitioners in London said that in the past three weeks "there has been an apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multisystem inflammatory state requiring intensive care," according to a Monday report by the Health Service Journal.
The alert added that "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."
It told doctors to "please refer children presenting with these symptoms as a matter of urgency." The UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, told a press conference on Monday that he was "very worried" about the reports of the condition, which Stephen Powis, the National Health Service's medical director for England, said could be similar to Kawasaki disease.
"We have become aware in the past few days of reports of severe illness in children which might be a Kawasaki-like disease," Powis said, adding that the service had asked experts "to look into this as a matter of urgency." The coronavirus pandemic has so far mostly affected adults, and the total number of cases of this unidentified condition in children is small, the UK's chief medical adviser, Christopher Whitty, told the press conference.....
