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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), or paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS / PIMS-TS), or systemic inflammatory syndrome in COVID-19 (SISCoV), is a rare systemic illness involving persistent fever and extreme inflammation following exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. [7]
In 2020, it was projected that approximately 150 million additional children would be living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health care, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis jointly carried out by Save the Children and UNICEF. [26]
Symptoms of COVID-19. Some less common symptoms of COVID-19 can be relatively non-specific; however the most common symptoms are fever, dry cough, and loss of taste and smell. [1] [22] Among those who develop symptoms, approximately one in five may become more seriously ill and have difficulty in breathing.
Around this time four years ago, we started hearing about a "mysterious" new virus called COVID-19. The upper respiratory disease would change life as we knew it, becoming a global pandemic.
Centrilobular emphysema is the most common type usually associated with smoking, and with chronic bronchitis. [17] The disease progresses from the centrilobular portion, leaving the lung parenchyma in the surrounding (perilobular) region preserved. [ 23 ]
[12] [14] Pneumonia is also the leading cause of death in children less than five years of age in low income countries. [14] The most common cause of pneumonia is pneumococcal bacteria, Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for 2/3 of bacteremic pneumonias. [15] Invasive pneumococcal pneumonia has a mortality rate of around 20%. [13]
Coronavirus diseases are caused by viruses in the coronavirus subfamily, a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, the group of viruses cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal.
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