Cases of the syndrome among children are rising. Symptoms include fever, inflammation, and organ damage, health experts say, and it can be lethal.
urges physicians seeing instances of the inflammatory syndrome to report them to local departments so cases, treatments and outcomes can be tracked. Children with the disease have had persistent fever and a variety of other symptoms, including low blood pressure, multi-organ complications and inflammation, the CDC alert said.
Fauci replied: “I have never made myself out to be the end all and only voice in this. I’m a scientist, a physician and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence.” He noted he leaves economic advice to others. “I think we better be careful, if we are not cavalier, in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects,” Fauci said.
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