Long term effects of coronavirus include heart damage

A new study found that COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, could have dangerous long-term impacts on patients, even those who only suffered mild symptoms while infected.

Researchers found that 78% of people diagnosed with coronavirus showed evidence of heart damage weeks after they recovered, suggesting the virus' long-term effects could be more serious than scientists once thought. The study looked at 100 patients who had not experienced symptoms related to their heart while battling coronavirus, and patients who were mostly health before their COVID-19 diagnosis. Most of the patients recovered at home and 18% of those studied never even had symptoms.

Scientists found damage to the heart muscle and the protective tissue that surrounds it. What researchers don't know is how long this damage sticks around. The patients in the study were put through an MRI two to three months after diagnosis.

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[ChuckyJCthulhu]

This is very alarming and can't be downplayed. The German researchers were quite thorough and examined 100 patients total, a third were hospitalized but two-thirds (67) had mild cases--either asymptomatic or mild symptoms managed at home. The large majority still had indications of heart damage based on troponin or cardiac MRI. Although flus and other viral infections sometimes cause heart problems, the level is much lower (about 10% or so) and not with this range of findings. No way they should be sending kids back to school or opening shops, this level of heart damage could mean millions of kids, a whole generation, and their teachers could have bad hearts within a decade or two. Do not mess with COVID-19, it's very dangeorus!

[SubFlow]

Shameful fearmongering. Just shameful. They say 78% of "people diagnosed" and they say 78% of "recovered patients". The first is a blatant lie because greater than 78% of people diagnosed either have no symptoms or mild symptoms. In either case no appreciable amount of these people wouldn pay for extended heart monitoring. The second claim is the most reasonable, in which case this 78% of patients is largely made up of the elderly or vulnerable, which equates to far less than 3% of total cases. This video trys to make it seem like 78% of people who actually suffer from COVID will have heart damage and that simply isn't true. Not by a longshot.