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‘It Was Just So Blurry’: Glencoe Boy, 9, Recovers From COVID-Associated Inflammatory Syndrome

The pandemic has been difficult for Jaxson Hoffman, an active and athletic fourth-grader in Glencoe.

(CBS News)

By Liz Collin, CBS Minnesota

December 8, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — As community spread of COVID-19 has increased across the state in recent weeks, so too has a rare complication from the virus only seen in children. Forty-two kids in Minnesota have been diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (or MIS-C). That number has nearly doubled since this summer.

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WCCO talked to one 9-year-old just home from the hospital after his sickness seemed to set in overnight.

An active and athletic fourth-grader in Glencoe, the pandemic has been difficult for Jaxson Hoffman.

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