SciShow: Kids, Kawasaki Disease, and COVID-19: What Parents Should Know

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Content of the Lesson: While children are only a small minority of those who test positive for COVID-19, we’re starting to see evidence of a rare, but serious, complication in children that resembles a condition known as Kawasaki disease. Here’s what doctors say we should watch out for. Hosted by: Hank Green Resources for parents: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/children/mis-c.html https://pulse.seattlechildrens.org/kawasaki-disease-in-children-with-covid-19/, https://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/inflammatory-syndrome-and-covid-19/ COVID-19 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNB4peY6C6IQediwz2GzMTNvm_dMzr47 SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00432.asp https://www.cdc.gov/kawasaki/about.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870533/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/kawasaki-disease#genes https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31129-6/fulltext https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kawasaki-disease-15-states-child-illness-coronavirus-cuomo/ https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)31103-X.pdf https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2764549 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/191/4/499/937208


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