NEW YORK — Children that contracted COVID-19 are at risk for developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome, which can present cutaneously, according to a poster presentation here.
According to the CDC, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare condition that usually occurs 2 to 6 weeks after a patient, aged 21 years or younger, contracts COVID-19.
“This is a new disease that came out with COVID,” Bashir Imam, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and an author of this study, told Healio. “Children who got COVID were coming