Children have started arriving at hospitals with a distinct set of symptoms during the pandemic.
The condition is rare — about 150 kids in New York City seem to have it, for example — and strange. Few patients test positive for COVID-19, and only some of them have trouble breathing, which has been a hallmark of those fighting a particularly bad COVID-19 infection. Instead, these young patients arrive feverish, rashy, nauseous and with a host of other less-visible symptoms that often resemble Kawasaki disease.