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2020-08-18 Science & Technology

Covid-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease

h/t Hot Air
By Haider Warraich
Dr. Warraich is a cardiologist.
[NYT] - ...Eduardo Rodriguez was poised to start as the No. 1 pitcher for the Boston Red Sox this season. But in July the 27-year-old tested positive for Covid-19. Feeling "100 years old," he told reporters: "I’ve never been that sick in my life, and I don’t want to get that sick again." His symptoms abated, but a few weeks later he felt so tired after throwing about 20 pitches during practice that his team told him to stop and rest.

Further investigation revealed that he had a condition many are still struggling to understand: Covid-19-associated myocarditis. Mr. Rodriguez won’t be playing baseball this season.

Myocarditis means inflammation of the heart muscle. Some patients are never bothered by it, but for others it can have serious implications. And Mr. Rodriguez isn’t the only athlete to suffer from it: Multiple college football players have possibly developed myocarditis from Covid-19, putting the entire college football landscape in jeopardy.

I recently treated one Covid-19 patient in his early 50s. He had been in perfect shape with no history of serious illness. When the fevers and body aches started, he locked himself in his room. But instead of getting better, his condition deteriorated and he eventually accumulated gallons of fluid in his legs. When he came to the hospital unable to catch a breath, it wasn’t his lungs that had pushed him to the brink — it was his heart. Now we are evaluating him to see if he needs a heart transplant.

An intriguing new study from Germany offers a glimpse into how SARS-CoV-2 affects the heart. Researchers studied 100 individuals, with a median age of just 49, who had recovered from Covid-19. Most were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms.

An average of two months after they received the diagnosis, the researchers performed M.R.I. scans of their hearts and made some alarming discoveries: Nearly 80 percent had persistent abnormalities and 60 percent had evidence of myocarditis. The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness.
0.05%????

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-18 08:09|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Web MD - Viral infection is the most common cause of myocarditis.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-18 08:35|| 2020-08-18 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 New mutation of the coronavirus 'may be a GOOD thing': Strain common in Europe, America and parts of Asia is more infectious but less deadly, expert claims

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-18 08:54|| 2020-08-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 That's what I think the virus was intended to do. Low mortality - to avoid panic & lockdowns. Infects most of the population with mild symptoms, and a few months later - bingo.
By the way, the effects of Covid 19 on hearts and brains were only discovered because of all the attention. In the scenario described above, it would've taken years. And be old news.
That is, in this view, the high mortality is an unintended product of the way they produced the virus (growing bat viruses on human tissue cultures) and before they could tone it down, the virus escaped.
That's raises an interesting question. We know "herd immunity" approach originated with China - who made it WHO's official position, and it spread from where*. So the question is - are "herd immunists" paid Chinese agents or simply idiots?

*It was the official position of most state epidemiologists (including Fauci - look it up) in the beginning. Fortunately, dropped when the corpses started pilling up.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-18 09:39|| 2020-08-18 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Severe coronavirus infections could trigger a rare, muscle-weakening autoimmune disease, report suggests

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-18 09:43|| 2020-08-18 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Coronavirus DOES trigger the inflammatory condition MIS-C that affects children - and the illness is different to Kawasaki disease, study confirms

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-18 12:15|| 2020-08-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 So, we have a lethal bioweapon on the loose, but the only people being punished are average Americans.

Got it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-18 12:54|| 2020-08-18 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ To be more precise, it only affects people with a heart and a brain, which leaves out Antifa and the Democratic leadership.

Posted by Matt 2020-08-18 14:01|| 2020-08-18 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks, China.

Posted by gorb 2020-08-18 14:46|| 2020-08-18 14:46|| Front Page Top

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