The New Way COVID-19 Might Be Affecting Kids

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The New Way COVID-19 Might Be Affecting Kids

By Joseph Block, MD Cardiologist, Children’s Wisconsin From the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the main understandings was that it didn’t affect healthy kids as seriously as adults. While that still remains true, in early May, reports talked about a “mysterious illness” that has shown up in some kids who have been []

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