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COVID-19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication COVID-19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication
Covid-19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication A mom is speaking out after her 9-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal COVID-19 complication that landed him in the hospital. Michele Mi says her son, Johnny, a third-grader in Mt. Olive, New Jersey, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Dec. 23 but showed no symptoms. “I thought we were very lucky,” she writes in a Jan. 20 Facebook post. Two and a half weeks went by before Johnny — who had already been quarantined — woke up vomiting with a spiked temperature, said Mi, who rushed him to a pediatrician. After Johnny’s flu test came back negative, the pediatrician told Mi a…

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by Valerie Musson
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What Parents Need To Know About MIS-C What Parents Need To Know About MIS-C
What Parents Need To Know About Mis-c Dear Doctor, As the parent of three young kids, I’m kind of freaked out by the recent news that there’s a new life-threatening complication of COVID-19 in children. What do we know about this problem, and how worried should I be? Sincerely, “Panicked Parent” Dear Panicked: It’s totally understandable that you’re concerned about this new complication called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Since MIS-C is so new (it was first identified in April), there’s still a lot that we don’t know about it. But we are fairly confident that it’s related to the coronavirus as all o…

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