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Jack McMorrow, 14, awoke in agony, with heart failure. His case may help doctors understand a frightening new affliction in children linked to the coronavirus.
By Pam Belluck
May 17, 2020
Updated 5:47 p.m. ET
When a sprinkling of a reddish rash appeared on Jack McMorrows hands in mid-April, his father figured the 14-year-old was overusing hand sanitizer - not a bad thing during a global pandemic.
When Jacks parents noticed that his eyes looked glossy, they attributed it to late nights of video games and TV.
When he developed a stomachache and didnt want dinner, they thought it was because I ate too many cookies or whatever, said Jack, a ninth-grader in Woodside, Queens, who loves Marvel Comics and has ambitions to teach himself Stairway to Heaven on the guitar.
But over the next 10 days, Jack felt increasingly unwell. His parents consulted his pediatricians in video appointments and took him to a weekend urgent care clinic. Then, one morning, he awoke unable to move.
He had a tennis ball-size lymph node, raging fever, racing heartbeat and dangerously low blood pressure. Pain deluged his body in a throbbing, stinging rush, he said.
You could feel it going through your veins and it was almost like someone injected you with straight-up fire, he said.
Jack, who was previously healthy, was hospitalized with heart failure that day, in a stark example of the newly discovered severe inflammatory syndrome linked to the coronavirus that has already been identified in about 200 children in the United States and Europe and killed several.
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Jesus!
Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)kentuck
(111,103 posts)This is some bad sh*t!
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)I can't even begin to understand how people think this virus is just a flu.
This is just insanely scary stuff.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)said on national TV everyday for over a month. No matter how much the media tried to convince people this wasn't the flu, the trumpglodytes screamed fake news.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)willing to bring this home to their kids? Maybe Grandma is just a useless and expendable old drag on the economy, but what about the kids? Or aren't they as important as your beer or your haircut, either?
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Right hand looks to be a heart.
Hearts to you, Jack. Please get well.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ya. Just get to work everyone.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)It could have effects we wont see coming for years.
James48
(4,436 posts)I still think it resembles somehow a weapon. If it is a naturally occurring virus, what more could one ask for in a Chinese manufactured biological weapon that got loose?
Please dont flag this as conspiracy theory garbage, but this thing doesnt act like any virus that weve seen before. Think about it- its attack isnt universal, but it is common enough and transmittable enough that large portions of those exposed to it are going to catch it.
It doesnt always kill you- BUT it kills enough that everybody develops fear or a healthy respect for what it can do.
In some people, it attacks organs and system and leaves long lasting damage.
In some, it now appears residual effects happen weeks or even months after initial infection. And we still dont understand how all of that is happening.
If this is naturally occurring, it sure picked some nasty characteristics, didnt it?
I sure hope they are able to come up with a vaccine for this. I really dont want to get it!