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title: "SF Chronicle: A Possible COVID-Kawasaki Disease Link | Sutter Health"
description: "The San Francisco Chronicle profiled a doctor's discovery of a Bay Area baby's case that may be among the first linking COVID-19 to Kawasaki disease."
url: "https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/research-innovation/dr-veena-jones-sf-chronicle-bay-area-babys-case-may-be-first-that-links-covid-19-to-kawasaki-disease"
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# Dr. Veena Jones | SF Chronicle | Bay Area baby’s case may be first that links COVID-19 to Kawasaki disease

The San Francisco Chronicle profiled a doctor's discovery of a Bay Area baby's case that may be among the first linking COVID-19 to Kawasaki disease.

May 11, 2020 by Sutter Health

Dr. Veena Jones was on her morning commute from her home in Menlo Park to her office at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto when she learned of lab test results that nearly jolted her to a stop right in the middle of El Camino Real.

The 6-month-old patient she was on her way to release after treatment for a rare inflammatory condition called Kawasaki disease had tested positive for the coronavirus. It was March 16, just before the statewide shelter-in-place order and long before there was any reason to consider a link between COVID-19 and the feverish and inflammatory symptoms of Kawasaki disease.

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