15-year-old Baltimore County girl's death linked to rare condition in child COVID-19 cases

The first death from a rare condition associated with COVID-19 found in children was reported in Maryland Tuesday.

FIRST CHILD TO DIE IN MARYLANDFROM THE CORONAVIRUS.TONIGHT.....WEMORE ABOUT A RARE CONDITIONLINKED TO THE DEATH OF THE 15YEAR OLD BALTIMORE COUNTYGIRL.

ITCOMPLICATION OF THE COVI━19VIRUS AFFECTING CHILDREN.WMA━2 NEWS RAY STRICKLANDSPOKE WITH AN INFECTIOUSDISEASE EXPERT ABOUT HOWRESEARCHERS ARE SCRAMBLING TOLEARN MORE ABOUT THISCONDITION.Doctors already facing anuphill battle in the fightagainst COVI━19, now have anew enemy...a rare conditionfound in children with thevirus.

15 48 28 39“There isno way that this is not aconcern.”Dr. Kwang Sik Kim isthe medical director of thePediatric Infectious diseasedivision at John HopkinsUniversityMedicine.

Dr. Kim says doctorsdon't know much about the rarecondtion known as MultisytemInflammatory Syndrome onlythat in the few hundredreported cases in the U.S, thecommon link is children hadtested positive for COVI━19.28 39“We are still scratchingare heads to find out what itis." The Maryland HealthDepartment confirmed thesevere inflammatory diseaseclaimed the life of a 15 yearold.

HER FAMILIY IDENTIFIEDHER TO US AS DARThe state health departmentreports the Baltimore countyteen is the first child to diefrom the rare syndrome INMARYLAND.

8:28“We dona lot of information becausethis is a new syndrome but itappears to occur in the laterstage of disease” Dr. Kimsays THEY DO KNOW Symptoms forMI━C such as a high fever andrash are similar to theKawasaki disease .A conditiontypically found in childrenunder the age of 5...but hesays this new condition isworse and attacking kids mucholder.

7:40“in children withkawasakihypertension is very veryinfrequent but appears to befrequent in children with thissyndrome”Despite limitedinformation, Dr. Kim saystheretheir familie━a treatmentPreviously used for Kawasaki.But he says more research ISSTILL NEEDED.

.16 57 if weunderstand how this syndromeoccurs than we should be ableto come up with a very optimalway to treat this syndrome”The state health departmentalso reported three additionalcases related to this newsyndrome...its working withits partners to identify morecases Dr. Kim says theresadly no info on how toprevent but his advice is tomonitor your kids and tocontinue taking theprecautions recommended forCOVI━19 RAY STRICKLAND━ WMARTWO NEWSTHERE'S NOW A CALL F