Wisconsin child dies of MIS-C – an inflammatory syndrome caused by ‘long Covid’

A young child in Wisconsin under the age of ten years old has died of Covid-related Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), the first of this sort of death in America.

The condition is tied to ‘long Covid’, the mysterious phenomenon where a person feels symptoms of the virus long after recovering from it.  

Experts believe MIS-C is an immune response to the virus, where certain areas of the body will become inflamed in an effort to combat it. Long Covid, and MIS-C, occur when the body continues this inflammation over a longer period of time.

In total, 60 U.S. deaths have been tied to MIS-C, making mortality extremely rare from the conditions that plagues nearly 7,000 Americans. This is also the first death recorded by a child.