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Why is COVID-19 killing so many young children in Brazil? Doctors are baffled Firstpost 4 hours ago The New York Times © Provided by Firstpost Why is COVID-19 killing so many young children in Brazil? Doctors are baffled Rio De Janeiro: Fretting over a fever in her toddler that wouldn’t break, the mother took the young girl, Letícia, to a hospital. Doctors had worrisome news: It was COVID-19. But they were reassuring, noting that children almost never develop serious symptoms, said the mother, Ariani Roque Marinheiro. Less than two weeks later, on 27 February, Letícia...

COVID-19 is ravaging Brazil, and, in a disturbing new wrinkle that experts are working to understand, it appears to be killing babies and small children at an unusually high rate.