8-year-old boy with rare illness associated with COVID-19 returns home from hospital By KCAL/KCBS Staff | February 7, 2021 at 10:52 AM EST - Updated February 8 at 2:59 PM
BEAUMONT, Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) – Eight-year-old Anthony Rodriguez Jr. recently got a warm welcome home after fighting for his life in the ICU.
He had been in Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital fighting against a rare illness associated with COVID-19 called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C.
His father Anthony Rodriguez said the entire family had COVID-19 in early December, but that they had mild symptoms and recovered.
But about five weeks later, his son suddenly came down with a fever.