DisneyJamieCA
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- Jun 21, 2007
Not that I've seen. It seems to be more a matter of now that it is recognized, doctors are starting to identify it in more places. But it seems to be a few cases here and a handful there, no real clusters other than the original (NYC/NJ still account for most U.S. cases) and no big surge. I saw one article that suggests the syndrome is similar to the cytokine storm that killed younger SARS patients during that outbreak years ago and another that suggests black children may be more vulnerable to the syndrome, but both were based on small, pre-publication studies and neither had enough new information to attract major news attention.
Thanks for that information. I have not seen a single data set here in Canada that has broken cases down by race or ethnicity. Did black children make up a disproportionate number of the cases diagnosed in people under 18 in the US?
A little OT but I am quite familiar with cytokine storm - a close family member has managed to survive it twice; brought on by various treatments for chronic lymes disease.
That is really interesting.
In my county they do break cases down here for us by race and 75% of our cases are Hispanic/Latino, as of today. And 95% of those who tested positive under the age of 18 are Hispanic/Latino (54 of 57 as of 5/21). We do have a large Hispanic/Latino population here, but they only represent 32% of the youth under 18, so something is definitely going on there. They were doing target testing in those communities and many cases were clusters within individual households, which would account for some of this, but it's still disproportionate. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any further follow up to why they think it's going on.
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