Doctors in Missouri said a 3-year-old boy suffered a stroke after testing positive for COVID-19, in what they called a possible example of the neurological effects associated with the coronavirus pandemic.
The child, Colt Parris, tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies and hours later lost the ability to move his right arm and leg, his mother, Sara Parris, told NBC affiliate KSN-TV. Dr. Paul Carney, a pediatric neurologist, said the boy had a stroke that cut off the blood supply to the left brain.
“There is really no other case like this,” Carney told the station.
Parris was recovering on Thursday at the University of Missouri Children’s and Children’s Hospital in Columbia after surgery to treat a brain clot, KSN-TV reported. He must recover fully, doctors told the agency.
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