This is double plus ungood news

 It ' s one study, and it isn ' t very long follow-up, just two or three months, butthis is a very ugly result. German researchers did magnetic resonance imaging of the hearts of 100 people who had recovered from Covid-19. Two thirds of them had not been hospitalized. It turned out that 78% of them had abnormal results indicating inflammation of the heart muscle, and/or reduced cardiac functioning, regardless of the severity of their illness. They don ' t fully explain how the sample of patients was obtained but they describe them as " unselected, " in other words they are assumed to be representative of all patients who have recovered from the disease. The median age was 49, by the way.It ' s too soon to know what percentage of people may suffer permanent heart damage from this, but it ' s pretty clear that some will. Boston Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez is out for the season due to myocarditis as a complication of Covid-19, and here we are talking about a young, healthy, world class athlete. Believe me, you want no part of this virus. It isnot the flu, and no it is not just an inconvenience if you don ' t die from it. Read that again.It ' s 78% of people who had " recovered. "The idea that it isn ' t worth the economic cost to control transmission looks pretty damn silly when you consider the economic cost of millions of people with heart failure, which is a pretty reasonable extrapolation from this. When you consider that 5.5 million Americans have tested pos...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs