Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

What a great thread

 

Walmart and Target have decided Black Friday crowds might be a bad idea during a pandemic.

 

Google Employees To Not Return To Offices Until July 2021

 

no one is rooting for sports to fail

but the idea that we're going to send millions of children back to school this fall when we can't keep 9 multi-millionaires at a time safe on a baseball diamond is worth exploring.

 

doom

 

yes, everyone wants to be unemployed

because three months ago

they were given $1200

to buy a new car

and a timeshare

in Ibiza

 

Damn it! I'm supposed to get my first Social Security check next month. I'm sick and tired of reading about sportswriters who don't want the NFL to play in 2020. Get out there and bust your humps for America and liberty. Together, we can beat this! (Actually, you're on your own.)

 

People will get sick, but by and large they’ll get better.

Two studies published Monday provide the strongest evidence yet that some patients who survive the respiratory ravages of COVID-19 may suffer long-last heart problems—the last indication that the fallout from the pandemic goes well beyond the death toll.

Experts who spoke to The Daily Beast said the twin reports published by the Journal of the American Medical Association should serve as a “wake-up call” to patients and physicians who think the new coronavirus is limited to the lungs.

“These two studies together are telling us that beyond the COVID-19 pneumonia and all of this severe lung damage and injury that can occur, that there is injury going on in a proportion of patients that may cause lasting heart damage,” said Gregg Fonarow, professor of cardiovascular medicine and science at University of California at Los Angeles, who wrote an op-ed about the research for JAMA.

In one of the new studies, scientists at the University Hospital Frankfurt found through cardiac imaging that patients recovering from COVID-19 continued to have problems with their cardiovascular system weeks and even months after their diagnosis. Out of 100 German patients, the study found that more than three-quarters—with a median age of 49—displayed signs of cardiac abnormalities. And nearly two-thirds had ongoing heart muscle inflammation. Furthermore, neither their history of hospitalization nor any underlying heart conditions appeared to be a factor.

“To me that’s concerning because it means you can recover from COVID and have a potentially smoldering heart sensitivity,” Eduardo Marban, executive director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, told The Daily Beast.

“There is potentially more than meets the eye with patients we think are doing quite well,” said Marban, who was not involved with the research published by JAMA.

The second study, conducted by a team of German physicians, focused on the cause of the inflammation. Looking at the autopsies of 39 patients, whose median age was 85. The official cause of death for the majority of the patients, 35, was pneumonia brought on by COVID-19. The paper found that in nearly two-thirds of cases, the virus had traveled directly to the tissue surrounding the heart muscle cells and infiltrated it. In a few instances, the virus was found to be actively replicating itself there.​

Is COVID-19 Creating a Generation of Heart Failure Patients?

We don’t even know how much we don’t know, but sure … let’s go to Applebee’s for mozzarella sticks and riblets.

 

Experts who spoke to The Daily Beast said the twin reports published by the Journal of the American Medical Association should serve as a “wake-up call” to patients and physicians who think the new coronavirus is limited to the lungs.

“These two studies together are telling us that beyond the COVID-19 pneumonia and all of this severe lung damage and injury that can occur, that there is injury going on in a proportion of patients that may cause lasting heart damage,”

“To me that’s concerning because it means you can recover from COVID and have a potentially smoldering heart sensitivity,”

“There is potentially more than meets the eye with patients we think are doing quite well,”

The paper found that in nearly two-thirds of cases, the virus had traveled directly to the tissue surrounding the heart muscle cells and infiltrated it. In a few instances, the virus was found to be actively replicating itself there.
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Is COVID-19 Creating a Generation of Heart Failure Patients?

 

Eleven days later, the national security advisor tested positive for COVID-19.