ginger ales i was like living the lifepam belluckso it seems like the steroids worked but doctors actually dont know that 100 percent and john jacks father called the pediatrician their longtime pediatrician and said what happened i dont know what happened and john mcmorrowhe laughed and i said why why why how did this happen what did he do and he goes i dont know i said you know my familys going to believe this was the power of prayer and he goes ill go with that because we dont know why we dont knowpam belluckmy family is going to think that its a miracle and the pediatrician says well that works for me because i dont really know eithermichael barbaroand pam beyond the steroids and whether or not those worked what did the doctors understand about what was going on herepam belluckwell theyre kind of mystified i mean theyve got this kid and they know that he has a positive coronavirus test but he doesnt have symptoms that kind of look like what theyve come to expect from coronavirus and at the same time just that very morning theyve had two or three other kids show up with the same symptoms very similar symptoms and those kids have tested negative for coronavirus so they dont have a live coronavirus infection but the doctors are wonderingand so they have another test in their toolkit they have whats called an antibody test which can tell you not whether you have the live infection right now but it can tell you whether somebody has ever had coronavirus infection and they think lets just give these kids these other kids that test and seeand lo and behold those kids end up being positive for coronavirus antibodies and that means that all of these kids who are showing up with these mysterious symptoms that cannot be explained by anything else that doctors know have this one common denominator they have all had coronavirusmichael barbaropam at this point what do the doctors think that this is exactly because all of these kids have had coronavirus but most of them dont still have itpam belluckwhat they think is this may be a kind of secondstage effect of coronavirus that we didnt know was possible that we didnt know was part of the way this virus worked these kids didnt get the lung problems the breathing problems that kind of assault on the lungs that is the primary way that coronavirus worksand so what the doctors think is that at the time of their infection their immune system did a really good job of just swatting the infection away of battling it away thats why they didnt have any symptoms at the time but that somehow in the course of that fight their immune system got so revved up and so hyperactive that it generated this inflammatory response weeks later and their bodies had this incredible overzealous reaction that went throughout their bodies and caused all