s_cid=mm7045e1_w † † COVID-19 was confirmed with laboratory detection of SARS-CoV-2 by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or antigen test. § § Patients with MIS-C as the reason for hospitalization included patients who met the clinical case definition for MIS-C (clinically severe illness requiring hospitalization in a person aged <21 years with fever, laboratory evidence of inflammation, multisystem [≥2] organ involvement and no alternative plausible diagnosis, and evidence of current or recent SARS-CoV-2 infection by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, serology or antigen test, or COVID-19 exposure within the 4 weeks preceding symptom onset [https:// emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00432.asp]) and were hospitalized for diagnosis and management of MIS-C, based on chart review.