Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/KFYx7BhzbR0   Pediatric cardiologists at New York’s Columbia University now report some good CoVid news: those children with CoVid-driven inflammatory heart disease are free of it within months of their infections.  This result from a study of 45 children admitted with CoVid multi system inflammatory disease or MIS-C.   At admission, 80% of the kids showed significant echocardiographic abnormalities.  By 1 to 4 weeks though, only 18% had even mild cardiac inflammation and all had normal appearing coronary arteries.  By 4 to 9 months, only one child of the 45 had persistent mild cardiac dysfunction.   This is welcome news for all parents, but all children will still require vaccination.   https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/07/14/peds.2021-051155   #children #misc #myocarditis #CoVid #multisysteminflammation