MONTPELIER, Idaho (AP) - Kale Wuthrich watched doctors surround his son in the emergency room, giving him fluids though IV tubes, running a battery of tests and trying to stabilize him.
He was enveloped by the confusion and fear that had been building since his 12-year-old suddenly fell ill weeks after a mild bout with the coronavirus."He was very close at that point to not making it, and basically they told me to sit in the corner and pray," Wuthrich said. "And that’s what I did."Shortly after Thanksgiving, the boy from a secluded valley in Idaho became one of hundreds of children in the U.S.
who have been diagnosed with a rare, extreme immune response to COVID-19 called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.