Two more NY children dead of coronavirus-related disease

Two more New York children have died of a rare, coronavirus-linked inflammatory syndrome that mirrors Kawasaki disease, Gov. Cuomo announced Saturday.

“The illness has taken the lives of three young New Yorkers. This is new, and it’s developing,” Cuomo said at his daily coronavirus press briefing in Manhattan.

The fatalities, which include a 5-year-old whose death the state announced Friday, are “truly disturbing,” he added.

The illness, which experts have said appears to originate from novel coronavirus,  has infected at least  73 children statewide. Tackling it is “the priority for us today,” Cuomo said.

“One of the few rays of good news was young people weren’t affected. We’re not so sure that is the fact anymore. Toddlers, elementary school children are presenting symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease or toxic shock-like syndrome,” he said. “It’s an inflammation of the blood vessels [that affects] the heart.”

Cuomo said the infected children tested positive for antibodies or COVID-19, but “those were not the symptoms they showed when they came into the hospital system.”

Specific details about the additional deaths were not immediately available.

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