“If it were any other drug this would be sufficient to halt its use.”
We are talking about something that is about 1/100,000 more frequent than what would randomly be expected, is not fatal, and in most cases is mild and transient. Like heartburn or chest pain - but rarer.
You don’t yet know it is transient, troll-boi.
For the coof itself, it isn’t always transient.
Mechanisms and treatments of myocardial injury in patients with corona virus disease 2019
Wenyi Peng 1 , Hao Wu 2 , Yan Tan 3 , Mei Li 4 , Dachun Yang 5 , Shuang Li 6
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Affiliations
1 Department of Cardiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu Military General Hospital, China; School of Medicine, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610083, China.
2 Department of Toxicology, The Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, Shannxi Key Laboratory of Free Radical Biology and Medicine, School of Public Health, Fourth Military Medical University, China.
3 Medical Management Department, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu Military General Hospital, China.
4 School of Medicine, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610083, China.
5 Department of Cardiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu Military General Hospital, China. Electronic address: yangdc71@126.com.
6 Department of Cardiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu Military General Hospital, China. Electronic address: Louis_1014@163.com.
PMID: 32987060 PMCID: PMC7518803 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2020.118496
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Abstract
The infection epidemic event of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was formally declared a pandemic by World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020. Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by SARS-CoV-2, a new type of coronavirus, which has high contagion and mainly causes respiratory symptoms. With the increase in confirmed cases, however, the infection symptoms turn to be diverse with secondary or first clinical symptoms relating to damage of the cardiovascular system and changes of myocardial enzyme spectrum, cardiac troponin I, electrocardiogram, cardiac function. The occurrence of extra-pulmonary manifestations, including immediately and long-term damage, means that the overall health burden caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection may be under-estimated because COVID-19 patients developed cardiovascular system injury are more likely to become serious. The factors such as directly pathogen-mediated damage to cardiomyocytes, down-regulated angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) expression, excessive inflammatory response, hypoxia and adverse drug reaction, are closely related to the occurrence and development of the course of COVID-19. In combination with recently published medical data of patients having SARS-CoV-2 infection and the latest studies, the manifestations of damage to cardiovascular system by COVID-19, possible pathogenic mechanisms and advances of the treatment are proposed in this article.
Keywords: COVID-19; Mechanisms and treatment; Myocardial injury.
If you check the authors’ affiliations, they are Chinese military. Hint hint.