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Many infectious diseases can produce the same symptoms — fever, cough, congestion. Heres how to find the culprit.

Starting Tuesday night, Riley Hospital for Children will start restricting visitors after a rise in pediatric respiratory cases.

4:31 To Bhumbra, an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, that can point to a potentially fatal condition known as MIS-C. It’s rare, but appears to be increasing with every COVID surge. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children has become all too familiar to Riley’s specialists. They’ve seen dozens of cases. “Its still a very rare phenomenon today,” Bhumbra says. “There have been about three million COVID cases in children since the beginning of the pandemic. But really,...

Fully vaccinated people can: Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing Refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic But there’s a big caveat to the CDC’s recommendations: mask-wearing and social distancing still need to happen in public. According to NP...

COVID-19 can trigger many complications -- including a rare condition that can be deadly for children. Its known as MIS-C. Doctors are still unsure why some develop it and others dont. But one thing is certain: Its hitting Black and Latinx children especially hard.