About the Authors

Jane C. Burns

jcburns@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lauren Herzog

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Olivia Fabri

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Adriana H. Tremoulet

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Xavier Rodó

Affiliation ICREA and Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Ritei Uehara

Affiliation Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan

David Burgner

Affiliation Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Emelia Bainto

Affiliation Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD and Water Resources Discipline, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David Pierce

Affiliation Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD and Water Resources Discipline, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mary Tyree

Affiliation Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD and Water Resources Discipline, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Daniel Cayan

Affiliations Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD and Water Resources Discipline, La Jolla, California, United States of America, US Geological Survey, La Jolla, California, United States of America

for the Kawasaki Disease Global Climate Consortium

Membership of the Kawasaki Disease Global Climate Consortium is provided in Table S1.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCB OF LH AHT DC EB XR RU DB MT DP. Performed the experiments: JCB OF LH AHT DC EB XR RU DB MT DP. Analyzed the data: JCB OF LH AHT DC EB XR RU DB MT DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCB OF LH DC EB MT DP. Wrote the manuscript: JCB OF LH AHT DC EB XR RU DB MT DP.