The alert left this weekend in England, with a report from the public health service, NHS England. Sick children of Covid-19 could also be affected by Kawasaki disease. Before the National Assembly, the Minister of Health said he took this alert "very seriously".
Olivier Véran revealed that "15 children in France since mid-April" have clinical signs of this serious inflammatory disease. which can be "sometimes a side reaction" to another infection. Young patients who suffer from "digestive, respiratory or infectious symptoms" accompanied by "a cardiac attack" according to Pr Alain Bonnet head of pediatric cardiology department at Necker Hospital in Paris.
On the side of the Minister, we assure that the European coordination is in place to know the origin of the disease: "All paediatricians, resuscitators in Europe work together to see whether or not to make a link with the Covid-19 ".
