New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday during a COVID-19 briefing that three children in New York State have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to COVID-19. The illness shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease.

Cuomo said state health officials were reviewing 73 cases where children exposed to COVID-19 also exhibited symptoms of the syndrome, which included inflammation of the blood vessels. He said this inflammation could then in turn could cause heart problems.

The governor said New York's health department had partnered with the New York Genome Center and Rockefeller University to look at whether there is a genetic basis for the syndrome. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had also asked the state to develop a national criteria for identifying and responding to the syndrome.

As of Saturday, the state had 333,122 cases of the novel coronavirus, according to numbers compiled by Johns Hopkins University, with 26,243 deaths reported.

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