‘Don’t lose another child’

City’s young PMIS vics

A total of 110 children in the Big Apple have contracted the rare Kawasaki-like inflammatory disease potentially linked to the coronavirus — and the disease is hitting young minority boys the hardest.

Among those in the city infected with the mysterious ailment, formally known as pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (PMIS), 54 percent have tested positive for COVID-19 or its antibodies, Mayor de Blasio said at his City Hall press briefing Friday.

“We lost one child,” Hizzoner said. “I want us all to work together and partners to do everything [we] possibly can to make sure we don’t lose another child in this crisis.”

Nearly 60 percent of the pediatric victims are boys, according to de Blasio. Thirty-five percent range in age from newborns to 4-year-olds; a quarter are between 5 and 9; 24 percent are between 10 and 14; and 16 percent range from 15 to 21 years old.

“We want people to be particularly vigilant with our youngest kids,” de Blasio said.

Twenty-four percent of those affected in the city are black, 14 percent are Hispanic, 10 percent are Asian, 9 percent are white, 5 percent fall into another category and it’s unclear for another 38 percent, according to the mayor — who called the data “sobering.”

“This looks like it’s tracking the same disparities we’ve seen throughout this crisis,” de Blasio said. “That’s something we have to attack very, very aggressively with all we’ve got.”

A total of 153 children have tested positive for the syndrome statewide, Gov. Cuomo announced at his briefing a short while later.

Symptoms of the illness can include persistent fever, skin rash, abdominal pain, bloodshot eyes, vomiting and diarrhea. Other symptoms, according to the state, include change in skin color (becoming pale, patchy or blue), trouble breathing or breathing very quickly, racing heart or chest pain, lethargy, irritability or confusion, difficulty feeding (infants) or being too sick to drink fluids.

Meanwhile, the city is making “tremendous progress” in the long-term battle against the coronavirus, according to the mayor.

Daily hospital admissions have been “consistently below 100 for a meaningful amount of time,” de Blasio said.