(Photo courtesy of Primary Children's Hospital) Twelve-year-old Madilyn Dayton developed a condition called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, an illness that appears in some children after they have had COVID-19. Children who have had this disease are required to stop playing competitive sports for up to six months as a safeguard against scarring in their hearts.
Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.