Kawasaki disease outbreak in children with COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has marched its way to almost all parts of the world, with hundreds of thousands of deaths and over 4.5 million cases as of May 15, 2020. One saving grace has been the apparent sparing of children, though the mortality in older people is quite high.

A new paper published on the preprint server medRxiv* in May 2020 reports the occurrence of a vasculitis syndrome called Kawasaki disease (KD) in children without any other symptoms of COVID-19, but who test positive for the virus. In children and adolescents, COVID-19 causes typically mild respiratory symptoms, unlike severe pneumonia and dyspnea seen in adults.

KD is the most frequently seen vasculitic condition of childhood. It is an inflammatory disorder that affects mostly the small and medium-sized arteries, without any apparent underlying reason. It is most common in Japan, where more than 300/100,000 children above the age of 4 years may be affected by it.
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