COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system

Nature ^ | Mar 5, 2020 | Ying-Ying Zheng, Yi-Tong Ma,

[DannyTN]

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects host cells through ACE2 receptors, leading to coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related pneumonia, while also causing acute myocardial injury and chronic damage to the cardiovascular system. Therefore, particular attention should be given to cardiovascular

[DannyTN]

Site wants you to pay. But the abstract concludes what some have been warning, that this can leave chronic damage.

If someone has access to it, it would be nice to know what attention should be given to protect the cardiovascular system.

[lepton]

Yeah, we’ve been hearing this from the beginning, that there is lung scarring, so the “recovered” aren’t necessarily well in some proportion of the cases, with some proportion of some type of care.

It’d be nice to have those numbers too.

[HangnJudge]

Not to mention reports of encephalitis
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/05/c_138846529.htm

[LucyT]

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PING

[Fury]

Yeah, we’ve been hearing this from the beginning, that there is lung scarring, so the “recovered” aren’t necessarily well in some proportion of the cases, with some proportion of some type of care.

Does any pneumonia result in lung scarring?

[null and void]

Not a cheap paywall either!

I'll wait until it leaks out by other means.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[right way right]

oh, I’ve already had this stuff for years.
This Corona would kill me.

[Redcitizen]

“I’ll wait until it leaks out by other means.”

Like a Coronavirus from a Chinese lab into a wet market?

[JoSixChip]

This Corona would kill me.

That's what these despicable fear mongers want you to believe. You've lived this long, you'll mace it through another flu season. Don't let these liberal freaks convince you otherwise. That is thier whole goal, to keep you afraid.

[lepton]

A quick search reveals results like the following:

“Pneumonia is an acute infection from which most patients will make a rapid recovery. ... Amazingly, even with severe pneumonia, the lung usually recovers and has no lasting damage, although occasionally there might be some scarring of the lung (rarely leading to bronchiectasis) or lung surface (the pleura).”

“Pneumonia usually does not cause permanent damage to the lungs. Rarely, pneumonia causes infected fluid to collect around the outside of the lung, called an empyema.Dec 10, 2018
www.health.harvard.edu”

There are references to how rare it is for scarring sufficient to show up in xrays to occur. One of the comments along with the discussions of using xrays and CT scans as diagnostics for COVID-19 is that was not so rare - though with a notable clarity on what that meant.

[DannyTN]

The vast liberal worldwide healthcare conspiracy?

Now with 89 countries participating.

I got to hand it to them. They’re very convincing.
They’ve totally fooled me.

[jimpick]

I think if you drink the lite stuff you just get a mild case of coronavirus.

[Dave Wright]

I read the abstract and it is really intended to warn physicians who are treating patients with Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) that may be taking ACE2 inhibitors. The COVID-19 virus spike binds to the ACE2 receptor and can interfere with heart and lung tissue functioning.

The vast majority of people without existing conditions like CVD, hypertension, or diabetes do not express elevated levels of ACE2 and are not significantly at risk for this complication. They experience flu-like respiratory problems and fever but do not develop pneumonia.

Although the clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are dominated by respira-tory symptoms, some patients have severe cardio vascular damage3. In addition, some patients with underlying car-diovascular diseases (CVDs) might have an increased risk of death3.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. Stay safe.

[DouglasKC]

Explains why some just drop dead....

[George from New England]

It is logical to propose that stem cell research will find a lung rebuild approach in the coming years.

[griffin]

Thank you!

[calenel]

Dude, now you’re actively endangering people.

[krogers58]

I've personally had tremendous luck, over the last few years, in that I am a compromised person, in that a flu or good cold represents a mortal threat to me. (COPD and CHF)

I have been taking an old drug, which has shown broad spectrum anti-viral activity against AIDS, Ebola, Marburg, Hep B and C, and coronaviruses MERS and SARS.

I have stopped three colds and one flu dead in their tracks with this drug. The problem is that it is an old drug, and has long-ago lost it's patent, so repurposing it, is an expensive proposition in that a drug company which does spend the money for studies will not profit on it.

I have been a career scientist and did in-depth research on ways I could minimize my risks of colds and flus. This old drug, has had a marvelous safety profile, in that it has been given to millions of children and pregnant women and is considered in the most safe drug category. It is widely available, and it is prescribed as an anti-parasitical for cryptosporidia, c. difficile, etc. It can be found online and is relatively cheap, and I'd encourage everyone to do their own research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitazoxanide
And has been initially been found to be effective against 2019 NCoV: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/925224
I'd prefer remdesavir, in the event I get this virus, but it is not likely there will be enough to go around, in time, so I think this is the next best thing.

[calenel]

If you are at risk, take precautions.

Ignore the idiots that want to lure you into whistling past the grave yard.