The Detroit News
By Karen Bouffard – June 20, 2024
“Legislation in the Michigan House would require insurers to cover the treatment for children who suffer from a brain condition believed to be caused by infections.
Nine-year-old Jack Stackpoole, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, developed a host of new symptoms — severe tics, an aversion to eating and picking at himself until he bled — after getting sick with COVID in January 2021. The Grosse Pointe Park child was diagnosed with a brain condition known as PANS, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. A monthly treatment with an antibody cocktail known as intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) brought immediate
and life-altering relief, according to his mother, Michelle Hooks Stackpoole.”
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Gabriella True
