Twelve-year-old contracted covid and risked his life, saved at Meyer hospital

He risked his life for the complications caused by the Coronavirus infection: the work of a multidisciplinary team from the Meyer pediatric hospital in Florence to save a twelve-year-old. Now, after 14 days in intensive care and a stay in pediatrics, the little one has returned home. This was announced by the hospital itself, explaining that it is the first time, since the beginning of the pandemic, that the Meyer doctors have found themselves "facing a case of this gravity. Usually, in fact, the virus affects children and adolescents more mildly. . In the case of the twelve-year-old, on the other hand, the infection has triggered a very serious inflammatory picture, which in technical terms is defined as Pims: a multi-systemic inflammation syndrome correlated to the Sars-CoV-2 infection identified in the pediatric age ".