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01-08-2020 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor
COVID-19 and Kawasaki disease: an analysis using Google Trends
Authors:
Mrinalini Dey, Sizheng Steven Zhao
Published in:
Clinical Rheumatology
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Issue 8/2020
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Excerpt
COVID-19, a novel coronavirus disease, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11 March 2020. There have been 4,248,389 confirmed cases and 294,046 fatalities worldwide [
1]. COVID-19 has been reported in children, although comprising < 2% of cases (
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/generated-pdf/document/COVID-19%2D%2D-research-evidence-summaries.pdf). Paediatric COVID-19 generally follows a milder course. However, there have been reports of a “Kawasaki-like” syndrome in children, first published in April 2020 [
2]. This was followed by a case series in London, describing Kawasaki-like shock in children with COVID-19 [
3], and reports of clusters in countries including Spain, Italy, and the USA [
2]. …
