Following emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in the life-threatening illness now termed ‘multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children’ (MIS-C) has raised questions about the unique effects of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents. Two important new studies by Consiglio, et al. and Gruber, et al. begin to shine light on the immune drivers of this enigmatic disease.
The mystery of MIS-C post-SARS-CoV-2 infection