Sudden death of young child a month after coronavirus recovery puzzles doctors

Health experts are trying to figure out what led to the death of a 6-year-old boy in Netivot, who was rushed lifeless to a hospital after not waking up Monday morning.

The father’s child describes him to Hebrew-language media as generally healthy, though he suffered a bout of the coronavirus a month earlier, and had gone to bed with a fever after not feeling well. The father indicates that the child had suffered seizures in the past.

“We’re in shock, a healthy kid, he played soccer,” the father tells Channel 12 news.

The child’s four sisters are now being hospitalized with similar symptoms to what he had, though it’s unclear what caused them to fall ill.

“We don’t know what the cause of death is,” Barzilai Hospital director Hezi Levy tells Ynet news. “We’re checking all possibilities. Checking if it’s Omicron, PIMS, post-coronavirus. Everything is being looked at, but there’s no clear answer for now.”