Across the state, sixty percent of the cases tested positive for coronavirus and forty percent tested positive for the antibodies, announced Gov.
Andrew Cuomo Wednesday. NEW YORK - Officials in New York are raising the alarm about an illness in children that is growing in numbers and may be related to COVID-19. "We need public awareness to grow rapidly," said Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday.
82 children have Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in the city, up from 62 cases reported a day earlier. 53 of the children have tested positive for coronavirus or have antibodies.
Across New York State, 102 children have been diagnosed with PMSIS and three have died including a five-year-old boy in NYC, a 7-year-old boy and an 18-year-old