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>There aren't 10 million people with new heart injuries in 2020. Are you sure about that, and how do you figure? Covid-19 related deaths alone are 4M and that'
by rndgermandude 5y ago
>There aren't 10 million people with new heart injuries in 2020.
Are you sure about that, and how do you figure? Covid-19 related deaths alone are 4M and that's only tracked deaths. We don't yet know the fallout and long term effects from non-fatal Covid-19. Research on temporary and permanent damage including "Long Covid" has only begun.
But with the data available right now, I have no problem imagining 10M Covid-19 related heart injuries globally.
E.g. there are studies, right now small scale (N=100), that suggest 4/5th of patients had "cardiac involvement" and 3/5th had "ongoing myocardial inflammation" after recovery from Covid-19 [1] (this doesn't yet mean permanent heart damage, nor is the small sample conclusive, but I think it's an indicator that we should pay careful attention to this area).
[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...