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5 a.m. –MIS-C: 10-year-old B.C. girl hospitalized with rare COVID-19 syndrome
A 10-year-old B.C. girl diagnosed with COVID-19 last month is now in B.C. Children’s Hospital suffering from a rare syndrome associated with the coronavirus.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children — known as MIS-C — can attack the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain and gastrointestinal organs.
This is believed to be just the third case in B.C. this year.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world, millions of people crammed the streets to demand governments take action to address the climate crisis.
Galvanized by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, they urged governments to make a rapid transition to renewable fuel sources, to enact laws to protect drinking water, oceans and forests, and to address issues of inequality and Indigenous rights.
But the momentum fizzled in 2020, the year we all stayed home because of COVID-19.
Young people, however, did not sit still. They continued their fight for a healthy future, whether it was in Zoom gatherings or by launching court cases.
Haana Edenshaw, a 17-year-old student and environmental activist from Haida Gwaii and a member of the Haida Nation, is among them. She and 14 other Canadian teenagers are suing the federal government for inadequate action to address the climate crisis.
