A teenager battles a new coronavirus-related syndrome
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NEW YORK — When a light red rash appeared on Jack McMorrow's hands in mid-April, his father surmised it was because the 14-year-old was using too much hand sanitizer — not a bad thing during a pandemic.
When Jack's parents noticed that his eyes were glassy, they attributed it to his staying up late at night playing video games or television shows.
When his stomach started to hurt and he didn't want to eat dinner, "they thought it was because he had eaten too many cookies or something," said Jack, a ninth-grader in New York's Queens borough who is a fan of Marvel Comics and who he has the ambition to teach himself to play Stairway to Heaven on the guitar.
However, over the next ten days, Jack began to feel worse. His parents consulted his pediatricians on online appointments and took him to an urgent care clinic that he attends on weekends. Then one morning he woke up unable to move.
