In addition, we also performed CombiROC between MIS-C and convalescent COVID-19 children to assess if MMPs could distinguish between them and demonstrated that a combination of 3 MMPs (MMP-8, MMP-12 and MMP-13) produced an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.95–1, indicating that these MMPs could distinguish MIS-C from convalescent children with 88–100% sensitivity and 90–100% specificity. Here, MMP13 is linked to COVID-19.