Open AccessMultiSystemic Inflammatory Syndrome Associated with COVID-19 in Pediatrics
Author(s) -
Eduardo López
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista argentina de reumatología
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2362-3675
pISSN - 0327-4411
DOI - 10.47196/rar.v31i4.378
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , disease , medicine , transmissibility (structural dynamics) , coronavirus , pediatrics , virus , outbreak , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , vibration isolation , quantum mechanics , vibration
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the pandemic caused by the coronavirus called SARS COV-2 causing the disease called Covid-19. This pandemic had and has a planetary impact never seen before with a virus that demonstrated high transmissibility and dissemination capacity. For several months, it was considered that adults were the most affected age group with high mortality in the elderly, considering that children could be infected but having the disease in a benign way.