05-05-2020, 08:41 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyreg...virus.html
Fifteen children in the NY area have been diagnosed with a Kawasaki-like syndrome, possibly linked to COVID-19. Annual incidence of Kawasaki disease in the US is 20/100,000, which would translate to about 1700 cases a year in a city the size of New York, or about 140 a month. Thus 15 cases doesn't strike me as all that unusual, though the fifteen only represent severe cases, so there are probably many more out there.
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Fifteen children in the NY area have been diagnosed with a Kawasaki-like syndrome, possibly linked to COVID-19. Annual incidence of Kawasaki disease in the US is 20/100,000, which would translate to about 1700 cases a year in a city the size of New York, or about 140 a month. Thus 15 cases doesn't strike me as all that unusual, though the fifteen only represent severe cases, so there are probably many more out there.
BC