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Monday, August 3, 2020

We're learning that COVID 19 damages internal organs

Everyone wants to be 
a COVID-19 expert.

Some say 
Sweden did 
everything right.

Some say
HCQ does not work.

Some say 
lockdowns
were dumb.

Some say masks
cause disease !

The pandemic 
is still in progress,
so there are 
no experts yet.

We do know that
the virus can leave
permanent lung
damage.

That's obvious.

Fortunately, people
can live a long life
without two perfect
lungs.

Small studies 
are now showing 
some damage
to other organs.

Even to COVID victims
that were never in
the intensive care unit.



University Hospital 
Frankfurt looked 
at the cardiovascular 
MRIs of 100 people 
who had recovered 
from the coronavirus, 
and compared them 
with heart images 
of people who 
hadn’t been infected.

Most of the patients 
hadn’t been hospitalized, 
and recovered at home, 
with symptoms ranging 
from none to moderate. 

Two months after 
recovering from 
COVID-19:
78% of them had 
structural changes 
to the heart, 
while 76% had 
evidence of a 
biomarker signaling 
cardiac injury, 
typically found 
after a heart attack, 
and 60% had signs 
of inflammation.

The Puntmann study 
was based in Germany, 
and the average age 
of cases was 49. 

These findings 
don’t tell us 
what’s happening 
in the roughly 45% 
of cases which are 
asymptomatic. 

Nor do they apply 
to severe ICU cases, 
or people under 18.

Another study 
by Lindner et al 
looked at 
39 autopsies 
of Covid cases 
and found 60% 
had viral RNA 
in their heart 
tissue. 

So there is 
early evidence
that COVID-19 
can leave 
permanent 
negative
changes 
to the lungs
... and the heart.


REFERENCES
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MS
 Gregg C. Fonarow, MD
(2020) 
Coronavirus Disease 2019 
(COVID-19) and the Heart
—Is Heart Failure the Next Chapter?,
JAMA Cardiol
Published online July 27, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3575


Lindner  D, Fitzek  A, 
Bräuninger  H,  et al.
 (2020) 
Association of cardiac infection 
with SARS-CoV-2 in confirmed 
COVID-19 autopsy cases.   
JAMA Cardiol
Published online July 27, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3551



Puntmann  VO, Carerj  ML, 
Wieters  I,  et al. 
 (2020)  
Outcomes of cardiovascular
 magnetic resonance in patients 
recently recovered from 
coronavirus disease (COVID-19). 
 JAMA Cardiol
Published online July 27, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3557