The problems of COVID-19 and acute encephalitis in children have Illustrator Artwork become prominent and become a key medical issue in Taiwan. Physician Li said that he observed the latest clinical COVID-19 epidemic reports in the world and found that there are no similar cases of encephalitis in Europe and the United States. Dr. Li said that, apart from Taiwan and Hong Kong, only Malaysia and Japan have reported one or two cases of childhood encephalitis caused by Omicron. Since April 2022, Taiwan has unexpectedly encountered a unique medical challenge: childhood encephalitis on its way to "coexist" with the COVID-19 (severe special infectious pneumonia, new coronary pneumonia,
Wuhan pneumonia) epidemic. As the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus ravaged the world, outbreaks of encephalitis in children were almost unheard of. Currently, only Japan and Hong Kong have sporadic cases. However, in Taiwan, according to statistics, as of June 21, a total of 18 children have died from the disease in this wave of COVID-19 variants, and 5 of them had symptoms of encephalitis. And, among children under the age of 12, 21 out of 65 severely ill with COVID-19 developed symptoms of encephalitis. According to the analysis of Taiwanese media "Reporter",
among the sick children diagnosed by Omicron in Taiwan, the proportion of patients with encephalitis symptoms is almost 1 in 10,000, which is not low. While observing this trend, Professor He of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Biomedical Research Institute), Academia Taiwan, posted on his personal Facebook in early June that so far, only Taiwan and Hong Kong have reported that children have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and complicated by COVID-19. There are few reports of encephalitis in other places (although it cannot be ruled out that there is also encephalitis in children in