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Many infectious diseases can produce the same symptoms — fever, cough, congestion. Here's 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. “It's 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, about 2,000 children have been diagnosed with MIS-C.” The condition is characterized by severe i...

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 NPR’s Shots, studies of the new vaccines only measured whether vaccinated people developed symptoms,...

COVID-19 can trigger many complications -- including a rare condition that can be deadly for children. It's known as MIS-C. Doctors are still unsure why some develop it and others don't. But one thing is certain: It's hitting Black and Latinx children especially hard.