Doctors in Missouri said a 3-year-old boy suffered a stroke after testing positive for COVID-19, in what they cited as a possible example of the neurological effects associated with the coronavirus pandemic.
The toddler, 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 daughter KSN-TV. Dr. Paul Carney, a pediatric neurologist, said the boy had had a stroke that cut off blood flow to the left side of his brain.
“There’s really no other case like this,” Carney told the station.
Parris recovered Thursday at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital at the University of Missouri in Columbia after surgery to address a brain clot, KSN-TV reported. He is expected to make a full recovery, doctors told the outlet.
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