By Marie Rosenthal, MS
As if COVID-19 and the coming influenza season were not enough to worry about, the CDC warned pediatric experts and emergency clinicians to expect an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) later this month and into the fall.
“We are concerned that in the midst of our COVID-19 pandemic that cases of AFM might not be recognized,” said Tom Clark, MD, MPH, the deputy director of the Division of Viral Diseases, at the CDC’s National Center for Immunization