A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health is aimed at determining why very few children, when compared to adults, have become sick with Covid-19 during this pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says this study will begin to answer whether that’s because children are resistant to infection of the coronavirus or because they don’t develop symptoms.
The study was to determine the rate of infection of the coronavirus in US children and their family members as well as who among those will develop symptoms of the disease.
It will also try to answer whether it impacts children who have asthma or other allergic conditions differently.
The NIH says preliminary evidence suggests that having an allergic condition may reduce a person’s susceptibility to coronavirus infection and severe Covid-19 disease.
At the same time New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state is working with the CDC to respond to an illness affecting dozens of children that may be linked to Covid-19.
The governor’s office said Saturday a five-year-old, a seven-year-old and a teenager died.
The children tested positive for Covid-19 but did not display any of the symptoms.
Instead the children had inflammation of the blood vessels which may have caused problems with their hearts.
They also had fever, rash, swollen neck glands, cracked lips, red eyes and swelling in the hands and feet.
Similar cases of the syndrome in children have been reported in Seattle, Northern California, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.
Health experts say it is too soon to tell what it really means but they need to determine if the information is a rare complication of Covid-19.
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