Kawasaki-like syndrome in kids ‘still rare’ despite Delta
A new study suggests most who develop the inflammatory illness recover well
Australia has recorded no cases this year of the Kawasaki-like syndrome seen in children with COVID-19 despite a rise in infection with the current Delta wave, a leading paediatric infectious diseases specialist says.
Professor David Burgner, from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, co-wrote Australia’s first advice on the syndrome, which has been dubbed paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS).
