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Deadly Covid-Linked Syndrome May Be Undercounted in U.S. Kids
‘It's like a bomb is inside them, breaking every part of their immune system up’
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Over the course of the pandemic, Texas Children’s Hospital has cared for more than 150 young patients with a rare and sometimes deadly inflammatory condition linked to Covid-19.
The Houston institution is one of more than a dozen children’s hospitals in the state. Yet for all of Texas, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied fewer than 100 cases of children with the condition, called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C.