by Alex Nowbar and Larry Husten
We nonetheless don’t know what COVID-19 is doing to the center or how we needs to be investigating it and treating it. Final month JAMA Cardiology revealed a German cohort study of 100 patients lately recovered from COVID-19. The paper concludes: “On this research of a cohort of German sufferers lately recovered from COVID-19 an infection, CMR revealed cardiac involvement in 78 sufferers (78%) and ongoing myocardial irritation in 60 sufferers (60%), impartial of preexisting situations, severity and general course of the acute sickness, and time from the unique prognosis. These findings point out the necessity for ongoing investigation of the long-term cardiovascular penalties of COVID-19.”
These findings had been extremely impactful as a result of they steered that the virus is doing one thing on to the center and that we must be doing a complete lot extra about it. However there are necessary questions overhanging the research that haven’t been answered. And if the findings of the research are unfaithful or doubtful, the results on this setting are huge, ensuing within the misdirection of significant sources in a time of disaster.
Plenty of putting issues with the research had been famous on Twitter…
