Posted on 12/30/2020 5:46:01 PM PST by Widget Jr
Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, who died while battling COVID-19, suffered a heart attack following a procedure, a hospital official said.
The 41-year-old was receiving treatment in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport when he died Tuesday, the Monroe News-Star reported.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor G.E. Ghali confirmed Letlow underwent an operation related to the virus and later went into cardiac arrest.
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I “buy” the use of the crisis.
I do not believe the virus was engineered for this purpose, tho’ I do think the Chinese “let it out” via large numbers of travellers to maximally damage other countries. Not that I think that would have mattered greatly in the long run, other than more time to create vaccines may have bought. EVERY study done says a pathogen this contagious cannot be contained forever - just slowed down. Once it hit a (relatively) free society with a lot of internal travel, and given “normalcy bias”, the die was cast.
Actually, if one understands our modern world and pathogens and epidemiology on even a rather basic level, it is quite(!) surprising a pandemic like this, and possibly a worse one, has not sprung up sooner. Mo’ Nature must have taken some time off on the subject.
But viewed with a larger perspective, 998 other people with the same profile who had covid at the same time survived. Public health policy must derive from statistical evidence, not from personal stories. To do so does not downplay the tragedy of a single death.
It’s an interesting time to be close to people who work indoors with thousands of strangers from many states every day.
I was hoping for decreases in the spread with less indoor human traffic in January, but the situation might get worse. Wish we had more analytical information, less sensationalism and fewer ambiguities about the following.
New coronavirus strain appears to infect children more easily
https://kfor.com/digital-first/new-coronavirus-strain-appears-to-infect-children-more-easily/
Super-infectious mutant strain of coronavirus that was found in Kent is ‘more likely to affect children’, claims study
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9088561/Super-infectious-mutant-strain-coronavirus-likely-affect-children-claims-study.html
Also, the term "heart attack" implies vascular disease to me, which would clearly be a preexisting condition.
Cardiac arrest or ventricular fibrillation seems much more likely.
No one who has a relative with a severe after-effect from Covid would say only, "I have a relative." So tell us: Was it your first-cousin's father-in-law? Your nephew's mother-in-law?
Second question: Do you know that her heart damage is directly due to Covid?
Yeah, didn't think so!
Regards,
Nah, it does cause heart damage. I got it in January. It felt like my heart muscle was ripping apart when I tried to get out of bed to take a P. It was a real struggle and I was breathing like I was in a road race. I was in hospital for 12 days. During my convalescence I had to learn on my own to take zinc, vitamin E and magnesium supplements to aide the heart healing. It wasn’t until 6 months went by that I could do stuff without a halting heart pain. EKGs are normal. It’s the muscle that’s damaged. I’d compare it to a torn hamstring. It even had the tickling sensation during healing like a hamstring injury.
I hate ambiguous statements like that!
FOUR MONTHS
So, can we safely infer that, three months after the initial infection, there was as yet no damage - i.e., that the damage needs a full four months to "get up and running?"
Can we also safely infer that, five months after the initial infection, these "signs of damage" will have completely disappeared?
The significance of mentioning "four months" should have been explained.
ONGOING SYMPTOMS
This needs to be placed in the proper relation: WHAT PERCENTAGE of all Covid-19 victims display ongoing symptoms? Maybe 0.02%? Maybe 0.005%?!
Without specifying that, it makes no sense to be worried about this.
Regards,
Are you PATIENT ZERO, or what?!
January?!
Justa, you got some 'splainin' to do!
Regards,
Went on a cruise with daughter to Cozumel and 18 days later -wham. Daughter didn’t get sick tho so that’s good.
” signs of damage to multiple organs”
My doctors saw this when I was in hospital. They were doing blood tests and determined organ damage from chemical levels in the blood. IMO this is what prompted them to recommend a quad bypass when I only had partial blockage. It was to improve the blood flow to the damaged organs. It worked! Smart cookies those doctors.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212555v1.full.pdf
“The latest analysis of data from thousands of users of the COVID Symptom Study app from ZOE, published as a preprint, shows that one in 20 people are likely to suffer from COVID-19 symptoms lasting more than 8 weeks.
We also found that it’s possible to predict who is likely to develop long COVID based on the very earliest signs of their illness. The more different symptoms a person experienced within the first week of illness, the more likely they were to develop long COVID. Using this together with age, gender and body mass index meant we could accurately predict who is most at risk of developing long-term symptoms.”
“Overall, the team found that while most people with COVID-19 reported being back to normal in 11 days or less, around one in seven (13.3%, 558 users) had symptoms lasting for at least 4 weeks, with around one in 20 (4.5%, 189 users) staying ill for 8 weeks and one in fifty (2.3%, 95 users) suffering for longer than 12 weeks.
“Extrapolating out to the general UK population, which has a different age and gender makeup compared with the COVID Symptom Study app users, the team estimated that around one in seven (14.5%) of people with symptomatic COVID-19 would be ill for at least 4 weeks, one in 20 (5.1%) for 8 weeks and one in 45 (2.2%) for 12 weeks or more.
The researchers discovered that older people are much more likely to get long COVID than younger people, although it does occur across all ages. Long COVID affects around 10% of 18-49 year olds who become unwell with COVID-19, rising to 22% of over 70s. Weight also plays a role, with people developing long COVID having a slightly higher average BMI than those with short COVID.
Although men are more likely to be admitted to hospital with COVID-19, women appear to be slightly more likely to suffer from long COVID than men (14.5% compared with 9.5%), but only in the younger age group.
The researchers also found that people with asthma were more likely to develop long COVID, although there were no clear links to any other underlying health conditions.
Importantly, the more symptoms a person had in the first week, the more likely they were to go on to develop long COVID. “
Glad you are doing ok now. Lay low and don’t get it again. I hope you are strongly considering a vaccine.
“Lay low and don’t get it again.”
Thanks for your concern. I have to work and go shopping tho. It’s everywhere now imo. I try and go shopping at the end of the week so I have the weekend to rest. I almost always get a reaction after shopping (fatigue, nausea, dizzyness, joint pain). I think it’s an antibody response to encountering covid. Yes, I’m considering the vaccine.
He made a mistake - but you’re still cowering in your basement with masks and gloves all within easy reach...riiiight.
That wasn't my intention. Hoping for the best for you and your old coot spouse and just offer a reminder that the overwhelming majority of all COVID patients recover at home with no lasting health issues. No reason to believe that you won't be in that group.
“Extrapolating out to the general UK population, which has a different age and gender makeup compared with the COVID Symptom Study app users, the team estimated that around one in seven (14.5%) of people with symptomatic COVID-19 would be ill for at least 4 weeks, one in 20 (5.1%) for 8 weeks and one in 45 (2.2%) for 12 weeks or more.”
So this says that only 2.2% of COVID-19-positive tested people have any damage beyond three months. We know many people have had COVID-19 who thought it was a cold or even didn't notice it at all—these are asymptomatic and untested people who could be six to ten times more prevalent than those who got tested. So as few as 2.2% of 1/10 the people who actually got COVID-19 have any symptoms beyond three months. Your prior article used the four month mark for its fear porn position.
In reality, all of your sources are telling us COVID-19 is just a bad flu, at worst.
Thank you for the continued lies as fear porn, though.
No, sir. You have just disqualified YOURSELF. The purpose of declaring a pandemic is because of the lethality of the virus/disease.
To wit, approximately 3 million people get the common cold every year. Many of those people contract other illnesses as a result such as pneumonia or the flu and many of those people die. On average between 40k and 80k people die of the flu annually, yet we do not consider either of those to be worthy of “pandemic”.
In short, as I have already said, you are entitled to your opinion but not your own facts, and just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it true.
“As far as I know, Covid does not increase chances of a heart attack.”
It increases the chances of clotting
um no. Heart valves are evaluated with echocardiograms. Heart rhythms are evaluated with 30 day event monitors.
Well, gee whiz, Mom. Appears somebody got triggered.
How about you stow away your self-righteous indignation and layout some of your facts to refute my facts. After all, you claim to be an MD so it shouldn’t be difficult.
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