MIS-C
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MIS-C (uncountable)
(pathology, Canada, US) Initialism of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
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As of August 6, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed 570 cases of MIS-C across 40 states and the District of Columbia, including 10 deaths.
Edwards also said that providers who may have cared for or who are caring for patients younger than 21 years of age meeting MIS-C criteria should immediately report these cases to the Louisiana Office of Public Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Team.
In this area, the less critical cases of MIS-C are being treated.
Now known by the name Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that the illness does have a link to COVID-19.
The children and teenagers with this COVID-19-related shock syndrome – now named multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C – are older than those doctors usually see with Kawasaki disease.
The first clue to MIS-C is a persistent fever without a clear cause, according to the AAP.