Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients

Kaiser Health News ^ | Apr 6, 2020 | Markian Hawryluk

[DannyTN]

... As more data comes in from China and Italy, as well as Washington state and New York, more cardiac experts are coming to believe the COVID-19 virus can infect the heart muscle. An initial study found cardiac damage in as many as 1 in 5 patients, leading to heart failure and death even among those who show no signs of respiratory distress.

That could change the way doctors and hospitals need to think about patients, particularly in the early stages of illness. It also could open up a second front in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, with a need for new precautions in people with preexisting heart problems, new demands for equipment and, ultimately, new treatment plans for damaged hearts among those who survive. ...

[SoCal Pubbie]

I’ll bet this article put a tingle up your leg.

[Diogenesis]

good patent for the Chinese,
and a VERY good investment for Gates and Soros and Xi.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Flu Concerns - Heart Disease and the Flu

Viral infections like the flu also put added stress on your body, which can affect your blood pressure, heart rate, and overall heart function. That can raise your odds of having a heart attack or stroke. But none of this has to happen. The flu is easy to prevent.

Aug 7, 2018”

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/heart-disease-and-flu

[Sacajaweau]

This is old news....one of many compromised systems.

[EBH]

they don’t need new treatments...just give everyone the malaria cocktail and now wait until their so darn sick.

Too much common sense for the doctors and governors...

[DannyTN]

Some people are ‘t going to take the cocktail early, so they’re still going to get seriously sick.

In those patients, doc’s need to be aware that heart damage may have occurred.

[Kozak]

Yeah all us doctors are idiots.

[grey_whiskers]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3831993/posts?page=170#170

(This new coronavirus causes its problems by chewing up the heme in red blood cells, releasing the iron into the body. Both the lack of oxygen-carrying capacity, and the iron running amok, cause their own problems. And the body's adaptive mechanisms to each of them just make things worse.)

I don't think this mechanism is found in ordinary coronaviruses or pangolin viruses, do you?

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Also ...

Emilio Martínez @egmartinez951 Cameron Kyle-Sidell, MD, a critical care physician in New York City, has been sounding the alarm urging healthcare professionals to consider that COVID-19 acts less like typical acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and more like high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). 8 https://twitter.com/egmartinez951/status/1246962186544611334

[Caipirabob]

It attacks the kidneys, too. I’ve read the research and it’s currently happening to distant kin we are monitoring in the hospital. The man is a retired pastor so wide potential for exposure. Praying for some sign of improvement soon but he has really struggling.

[steve8714]

Article says they need “studies”. Research cardiologists not getting enough grant money?

[SmokingJoe]

So heart disease which has been around for thousands of years, is now the fault of coronavirus?
Give me a break!
What did these fools do before the cronavirus hysteria was manufactured?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I wonder if the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason knew all this before the gave the OK to the Chinese. On the other hand I’m sure they wanted the pandemic to last all the way to the election. Anyone of the deep state test positive yet for this virus or did the Chinese give them the vaccine first?

[steve8714]

I think it also causes spongiform encephalitis, and I’d like to do a study.
I think it causes halitosis, and I’m prepared to do a study.
Heart problems because it’s early spring and the gyms are closed. Where’s my grant?

[JonPreston]

Scientific American

Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients

By Markian Hawryluk

While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front lines are grappling with a new medical mystery.

In addition to lung damage, many COVID-19 patients are also developing heart problems — and dying of cardiac arrest.

As more data comes in from China and Italy, as well as Washington state and New York, more cardiac experts are coming to believe the COVID-19 virus can infect the heart muscle. An initial study found cardiac damage in as many as 1 in 5 patients, leading to heart failure and death even among those who show no signs of respiratory distress.

That could change the way doctors and hospitals need to think about patients, particularly in the early stages of illness. It also could open up a second front in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, with a need for new precautions in people with preexisting heart problems, new demands for equipment and, ultimately, new treatment plans for damaged hearts among those who survive.

[Carl Vehse]

Another reason for calling it the ChiCom bioterrorist attack.

[Rapscallion]

Think about bio-warfare for just a minute. Maybe it is time to praised the lord and pass the ammunition.

[MD Expat in PA]

Where’s my grant?

I don't know about a grant, but here's your sign. : ),

[DEPcom]

There is also suggestions COVID-19 targets the brain stem and nervous system. Not your normal respiratory virus.

[Chickensoup]

I cannot tell you how stupid you sound.

It boggles the mind

this effect has been a hallmark of the disease since the beginning and reported in China as well.