1-year-old boy diagnosed with MIS-C with “strawberry tongue, high fever and vomiting” 1 month after diagnosis

The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (21) that there have been 22,397 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China, including 22,137 local cases and 260 imported cases; 26 new deaths were confirmed among the confirmed cases and local Chinese there were also 97 new cases of severe cases and 1 case of severe MIS-C in a 1-year-old child.

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Central Epidemic Command Center spokesman Zhuang Renxiang said there have been 4,981,428 local cases in Japan since August 20 this year and 97 new moderate and severe cases have been added this year. Symptomatic and asymptomatic accounted for 99.54% of all cases.

Zhuang pointed out that there is 1 new case of severe MIS-C in children today. The 1-year-old boy has no history of chronic disease and has not been vaccinated against the new corona epidemic. He was diagnosed on July 16 and has had a high fever, vomiting and decreased appetite since August 15. When she got to the ER, she had strawberry tongue, red swollen lips and conjunctivitis. The initial diagnosis was MIS-C. She was hospitalized with immunoglobulins, steroids and other drug therapy. She is still under observation in the general medicine ward.

To date, there have been a total of 180 serious cases of children, including 27 cases of encephalitis, 21 cases of pneumonia, 1 case of myocarditis, 3 cases of sepsis, 6 cases of home death, 109 cases of MIS-C, 3 cases of comorbidities, of which 27 cases died.

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He said yesterday 5,517 children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years were vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine, including 3,820 in the first dose, 1,697 in the second dose and 147,588 in the first dose. , 9%. of this age group.