If there was any consolation from the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the notion that children escaped relatively unscathed. If they did become sick, they tended to have mild symptoms that did not require hospitalization.
That tiny consolation was shattered when very sick children began turning up in hospitals in Europe and the United States (Lancet 2020 May 13. [Epub ahead of print]). They took clinicians by surprise, admitted Michael Levin, MBE, PhD, FRCPCH, FMedSci, a