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Wayne State Researcher Developing AI Tool to Predict Severe COVID-19 Cases in Children A researcher at Detroit’s Wayne State University is developing artificial intelligence to aid in the early detection of severe SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in children. A Wayne State researcher is developing a device built on artificial intelligence that detects whether COVID-19 will become a more severe disease in child patients. // Image courtesy of Wayne State University A researcher at Detroit’s Wayne State University is developing artificial intelligence to aid in the early detection ...

Nearly 3 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., and numbers across the country have risen sharply in recent weeks.

The past several months have been a confusing time, and we’re still learning new things about COVID-19, the virus behind the ongoing pandemic. There are some things scientists are starting to understand, including how this virus might affect kids and teens. Here are three things we know about kids and COVID-19. COVID-19 probably won’t make you very sick Scientists are finding that kids and young adults usually only have mild symptoms if they’re infected by COVID-19. Oftentimes, they don’t even have any symptoms at all. That’s especially true if you don’t have any underlying healt...

MADISON, N.Y. -- The new year got off to a scary start for the Ford family, in Madison. They all recovered from COVID shortly after Thanksgiving. But about a month later, 4-year-old Kaison Ford started to complain about headaches and had a low-grade fever. His doctor suspected an early ear infection, and sent the Fords home with a nasal spray. But that night, Kaison spiked a fever of 102 degrees. A second trip to the doctor revealed a negative rapid test for strep throat. The doctor gave him antibiotics for a suspected ear infection. But 24 hours and his fever wasn't budging.

Salazar found out the National Institutes of Health has awarded money to his project to study a rare and severe after-effect of COVID-19 in kids called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome. “That inflammation then starts attacking the heart, blood vessels, brain, kidney, the lungs in a way that can be quite dramatic,” said Doctor Salazar. In the past four months about 80 kids at Connecticut Children’s were suspected of having the syndrome, which usually develops several weeks after being infected with the virus. Families usually show up with kids suffering from symptoms such as high fever,...