The main symptoms are severecoughing fits which, in babies and children, are accompanied by the characteristic "whoop" sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing.
The family brought Piper to the Children's Hospital at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center on Aug. 22 because she was having severecoughing fits at home and then her left leg and entire right side went limp.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses ranging from the common cold to the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, spread through droplets of body fluids produced by sneezing and coughing.