The Impact of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Upon Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease | Zendy

Stanford T. Shulman | Zendy; Bessey Geevarghese | Zendy; KwangYoun A. Kim | Zendy; Anne H. Rowley | Zendy

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The Impact of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Upon Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease

Author(s) -

Stanford T. Shulman,

Bessey Geevarghese,

KwangYoun A. Kim,

Anne H. Rowley

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/piab013

Subject(s) - kawasaki disease , medicine , covid-19 , respiratory system , etiology , disease , intensive care medicine , medical diagnosis , pandemic , respiratory illness , coronavirus , pediatrics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , artery

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mitigation policies have been associated with profound decreases in diagnoses of common childhood respiratory infections. A leading theory of etiology of Kawasaki disease (KD) is that it is triggered by presently unidentified ubiquitous respiratory agent. We document that mitigation policies instituted in mid-March 2020 were associated with strikingly fewer diagnoses of KD in April-December 2020 compared with the same period in the previous 8 years (P = .01), a >67% decline. This finding supports the hypothesis that KD is caused by a respiratory-transmitted agent.

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