NIH allocates 20 million U.S. dollars to study children's severe disease related to new coronary pneumonia
Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Liu Xia) According to a recent report on the Washington Post website, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued a statement stating that it will invest 20 million US dollars in the next four years to support children Research on high-risk diseases related to new coronary pneumonia.
NIH said that although most children have mild symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus, many children still have severe inflammation of their organs and tissues, which may cause the death of children.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States show that as of August 6, the center has confirmed 570 cases of childhood multiple inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), and 40 states have reported 10 deaths. Most patients are children from 1 to 14 years old, with an average age of 8 years.
NIH's funding action aims to encourage researchers to conduct research on genetic, immune, viral, environmental and other factors that may affect the severity of new coronary pneumonia and the possibility of deterioration.
It is reported that the project is called "Using laboratory diagnosis and artificial intelligence methods to predict the severity of virus-related inflammatory diseases in children (PreVAIL children)", and is committed to creating a "frontier method" to understand what causes children to be infected with the new crown virus. Multiple symptoms: from no symptoms at all to fever, cough, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and coronary artery inflammation.
Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under NIH, said: “We urgently need a way to distinguish children at high risk of MIS-C from those who are unlikely to suffer severe damage from the new crown virus. In order to be able to formulate early intervention measures to improve the results of treating children with new coronary pneumonia."
According to a report by CBS on the 8th, a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics found that in the two weeks from July 16 to 30, more than 97,000 children in the United States tested positive for the new crown virus. Currently, more than 338,000 children in the United States have been infected with the new coronavirus.