{"id":14590,"date":"2020-05-11T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2020-05-17T23:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:38:55","slug":"new-york-leaders-sounds-alarm-over-potentially-covid-linked-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/new-york-leaders-sounds-alarm-over-potentially-covid-linked-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"New York leaders sounds alarm over potentially COVID-linked syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday voiced “tremendous concern” over an uptick in cases of a pediatric syndrome that scientists suspect could be linked to COVID-19, which has left at least three people dead statewide.<\/p>\n

The mayor said 38 cases of pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome detected in New York City, with an additional nine suspected cases awaiting confirmation.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterward Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state health department was probing 85 potential cases statewide of the syndrome, which exhibits similarities to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome.<\/p>\n

One of the deaths was a five-year-old boy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Howard Zucker, the state’s health commissioner, said the others included an elementary school-age child and an adolescent.<\/p>\n

The children were not known to have pre-existing conditions and lived in three different counties, Zucker said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo said two additional deaths were under investigation, which if confirmed would bring the total statewide death toll linked to the syndrome to five.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of the illness include persistent fever, rash, abdominal pain and vomiting, as well as possible inflammation of blood vessels and the heart.<\/p>\n

“What it does is, basically, in a child’s body triggers an intensive, almost overwhelming immune system response. And that actually causes harm to the body,” de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

The mayor said all children with associated symptoms would now be tested for COVID-19 as well as antibodies.<\/p>\n

So far, of the confirmed cases in the city, 47 percent had tested positive for coronavirus and 81 percent had antibodies, the mayor said, indicating most had exposure to the fast-spreading virus at some point.<\/p>\n

Cuomo said it was possible cases had already cropped up previously but had not been linked to the coronavirus because of the absence of respiratory symptoms.<\/p>\n

Kawasaki disease is a mysterious illness that primarily affects children up to the age of five and causes the walls of arteries to become inflamed, resulting in fever, skin peeling and joint pain.<\/p>\n

Britain’s National Health Service first sounded the alarm last month, warning about a small rise in children infected with the coronavirus that have “overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki disease.”<\/p>\n

France has also reported several cases.<\/p>\n

Though frightening, most recover without serious issues.<\/p>\n

Mandatory nursing home testing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Sunday both the mayor and the governor also emphasized research into remdesivir drug therapy, an anti-viral shown to reduce recovery times in COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n

US regulators authorized emergency use of the drug against severe infections, with Japan also approving it last week.<\/p>\n

De Blasio said initial trials had shown decreased hospital stays from 15 days to 11 for those treated with the drug.<\/p>\n

He called on the Donald Trump administration to release more doses to New York, saying the city had received 4,000 but sought 39,000 for the month of May.<\/p>\n

Cuomo, meanwhile, introduced new regulations for nursing homes, which have been particularly hard-hit by coronavirus, saying all staff must now be tested twice a week for infection — or facilities will face losing their licenses.<\/p>\n

And as May 15 approaches, the date to which the governor extended statewide confinement measures, Cuomo said some regions in New York would likely be ready to begin a soft loosening of regulations.<\/p>\n

But relaxing such measures in New York City appeared distant: the city of 8.6 million is still by far the epicenter of the virus in the United States with approximately a quarter of the country’s more than 79,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

The city has reported more than 14,000 coronavirus-linked deaths and over 5,000 more considered likely caused by the infection.<\/p>\n

If you want to help in the fight against COVID-19, we have compiled an up-to-date list of community initiatives designed to aid medical workers and low-income people in this article. Link: [UPDATED] Anti-COVID-19 initiatives: Helping Indonesia fight the outbreak<\/a><\/em>
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