Since the turn of the year alone, about thirty children have been cared for for MIS-C, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children associated with COVID-19, by Astrid Lindgren's pediatric rheumatologist.
MIS-C is a very unusual life-threatening sequelae of covid-19, in which the body suffers from a hyper-inflammation and the immune system becomes overactivated.
How is the situation at the hospital? Hear the doctors tell more in the video above.
Even in the child intensive care unit, the situation is strained as many of the children's hospital's employees are still on loan to Karolinska's adult wards.
The number of children cared for for MIS-C in the Stockholm Region.
Because children are not tested for covid-19, it is difficult to determine many children who suffer from the very unusual sequelae.
Photo: Graphics: Astrid Lindghren Children's Hospital