The broader implications of these findings are clear. Cardiovascular complications have been described in the acute phase of COVID-19 (refs. 6,7,8). Our study shows that the risk of incident cardiovascular disease extends well beyond the acute phase of COVID-19. First, the findings emphasize the need for continued optimization of strategies for primary prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infections; that is, the best way to prevent Long COVID and its myriad complications, including the risk of serious cardiovascular sequelae, is to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first place. Second, given the large and growing number of people with COVID-19 (more than 72 million people in the United States, more than 16 million people in the United Kingdom and more than 355 million people globally), the risks and 12-month burdens of cardiovascular diseases reported here might translate into a large number of potentially affected people around the world. Governments and health systems around the world should be prepared to deal with the likely significant contribution of the COVID-19 pandemic to a rise in the burden of cardiovascular diseases. Because of the chronic nature of these conditions, they will likely have long-lasting consequences for patients and health systems and also have broad implications on economic productivity and life expectancy. Addressing the challenges posed by Long COVID will require a much-needed, but so far lacking, urgent and coordinated long-term global response strategy9,10.
Unsurprisingly, COVID is linked to damage to the cardiovascular system. Even in "mild" cases:
Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 | Nature Medicine
Also someone should tell our politicians in charge about the bolded, because they sure don't give a shit if we all get infected.
As another reminder: many more states are planning on dropping mask mandates in the coming months as omicron dies down. Surely, this will have no negative consequences.
GET VACCINATED & BOOSTED since that's your best defense against hospitalization and long-term effects of COVID.
No it's not. Avoiding the virus in the first place is.
Sorry we are not locking down because there's a 20% increase chance of heart flutters sometime in the next year.
You didn't have to change any, flutter was already in there.
Also what about this?
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Seriously, seems weird
There’s nothing weird about it. The 95% confidence interval of [0.71, 1.17] includes hazard ratios of greater than 1.
But also less than 1, with most of the range below 1. Seems odd for something so drastic as cardiac arrest that there's even the possibility the control group was more prone than the COVID group.
Unless I'm reading that wrong.
It’s likely because cardiac arrest, myocarditis, and cardiogenic shock are rarer occurrences. It’s why the confidence intervals are wider as well.
Because they are so rare, it’s possible that sheer randomness of the sampling process can explain why the sample of those who had from mild COVID suffered cardiac arrest at a lower rate than the control group.
life is basically normal there
the only problem is they can't leave lol
well they can, but it's a hassle and a half to come back... there are way fewer flights and they're like 3x the price and they would have to do a gov-controlled 3 week quarantine where they basically lock them in a hotel room with room service and have a doctor check on them once a day
but yeah super robust big-brothery contact tracing has essentially stamped out the virus within China; when it crops up here and there they do total local lockdown and isolate all cases so it doesn't spread
the international border is essentially closed
they're still trying to get everyone vaccinated; there are anti vaxxers there too so they are trying to incentivize by paying people to get vaxxed
but everyone is back to work and school and going to shows and restaurants and all that, no masks anywhere
So one of my former group leads where I work were catching up a couple of days ago and asked how her brother was doing who lives over in China with his Chinese wife with basically the low down in how life is atm over there related to covid. Hilariously even China has to deal with antivaxers:
So one of my former group leads where I work were catching up a couple of days ago and asked how her brother was doing who lives over in China with his Chinese wife with basically the low down in how life is atm over there related to covid. Hilariously even China has to deal with antivaxers:
That sounds lovely. I wish we would do that *sigh*
So one of my former group leads where I work were catching up a couple of days ago and asked how her brother was doing who lives over in China with his Chinese wife with basically the low down in how life is atm over there related to covid. Hilariously even China has to deal with antivaxers:
Not surprising a wealthy communist country can do stuff to mitigate a pandemic versus some western democracies.
Kinda curious what kinda of idiocracy we'll see next time with an even more lethal pandemic.
Too many Braveheart watchers lol…..”take my life not my freedom”!