Where the nation once believed children were rarely impacted by COVID-19, this mysterious COVID-19 related illness has touched children in every age group beginning with five percent of the cases impacting children under the age of one; 15 percent were between the ages of one and four years; 29 percent of the children are between the ages of five and nine years; 28 percent between 10 and 14 years of age and another 20 percent are between the ages of 15 and 21 years.
Among the cases documented in New York to date, although nearly 70 percent of the state’s total population is White only 25 percent of children diagnosed with the illness are White; while Blacks who are 17 percent of the state’s population account for more than 22 percent of the children impacted by this syndrome.
To date New York shows only nine percent of the children with the syndrome are Latinx and three percent are Asian.
On Monday, the New York Department of Health Commissioner Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD sent a formal alert to health department officials in the 49 other states and is currently leading the national effort to understand and manage this new COVID-19 syndrome.
In addition to New York and California, other states with these Kawasaki-type COVID-19 cases in children include Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington (state), and Washington, D.C.
