COVID Heart Damage
Discussions debate whether long-term cardiac issues, strokes, blood clotting, and other sequelae are caused by COVID-19 infection itself, often citing articles on heart damage and inflammation.
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much more profound for covid usually https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53810610
You should consider that sequelae like this are characteristic of many forms of being very sick. It could be COVID specifically, but neither this article nor your experience establishes that causal link.
"may not be from COVID itself" is already clearly stated in the article.
Much more likely side-effects of COVID infection, no?
I think it could also be due to damaged heart tissue as there have been reports of covid having that affect on people.
Are you not aware of the high rates of cardiac issues seen longterm?https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-causes-heart-damage-hea...https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-abo
Here is a simplified discussion: https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...
COVID harms people too, but more.
Sounds like this would have been a great candidate for covid patients with immune system issues...like cytokine storms etc.
The National Geographic article from a few months ago covers the lasting effects much better.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...