COVID-19 Is Affecting Children as Young as 8 With Horribly Painful Symptoms

Shocking images of children being ravaged by COVID-19 show kids struggling for life. Eight-year-old Jayden Hardowar was rushed to the hospital in Queens, New York, in cardiac arrest. After three days on a ventilator, he is now recovering. Jack McMorrow, 14, says he’s lucky to be alive, and that the pain he was in during his hospitalization was “indescribable.” Severe inflammation has been an increasingly common symptom of the virus in children, and new symptoms are being discovered each day.