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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc
. 2021 Mar 23;piab013.
doi: 10.1093/jpids/piab013. Online ahead of print.
The Impact of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Upon Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease
Stanford Shulman[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Bessey Geevarghese[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kwang-Youn Kim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Anne Rowley[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mitigation policies have been associated with profound decreases in diagnoses of common childhood respiratory infections. A leading theory of etiology of Kawasaki disease (KD) is that it is triggered by presently unidentified ubiquitous respiratory agent. We document that mitigation policies instituted in mid-March 2020 were associated with strikingly fewer diagnoses of KD in April-December 2020 compared with the same period in the previous 8 years (P = .01), a >67% decline. This finding supports the hypothesis that KD is caused by a respiratory-transmitted agent.
Keywords: COVID-19; Kawasaki disease; mitigation; respiratory transmission; social distancing.
. 2021 Mar 23;piab013.
doi: 10.1093/jpids/piab013. Online ahead of print.
The Impact of Social Distancing for COVID-19 Upon Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease
Stanford Shulman[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Bessey Geevarghese[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kwang-Youn Kim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Anne Rowley[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33755140
- DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piab013
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mitigation policies have been associated with profound decreases in diagnoses of common childhood respiratory infections. A leading theory of etiology of Kawasaki disease (KD) is that it is triggered by presently unidentified ubiquitous respiratory agent. We document that mitigation policies instituted in mid-March 2020 were associated with strikingly fewer diagnoses of KD in April-December 2020 compared with the same period in the previous 8 years (P = .01), a >67% decline. This finding supports the hypothesis that KD is caused by a respiratory-transmitted agent.
Keywords: COVID-19; Kawasaki disease; mitigation; respiratory transmission; social distancing.