# 85 NY kids stricken with mysterious coronavirus-linked disease **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [May 10, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/853555 "2020-05-10T22:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/853555/1 "2020-05-10T22:57:26Z")
It’s not just nursing homes and elderly. > **[85 NY kids stricken with mysterious coronavirus-linked disease: Cuomo](https://nypost.com/2020/05/10/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/)** > > New York has now seen at least 85 children stricken by a new coronavirus-linked inflammatory syndrome — along with two more possible deaths, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Sunday. “It is a … > [@](#): > > New York has now seen at least 85 children stricken by a new coronavirus-linked inflammatory syndrome — along with two more possible deaths, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Sunday. > … > Cuomo said that it has been tricky to detect because it “does not present as a normal COVID case,” by attacking blood vessels and the heart rather than the respiratory system. > “It’s possible that these cases were coming in, and not diagnosed as related to COVID because they don’t appear as COVID,” he conceded. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/853555/2 "2020-05-10T23:07:13Z")
We already have another thread about this. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=895908](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=895908) It’s definitely puzzling. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/853555/3 "2020-05-10T23:11:08Z")
Closed duplicate.