Mortality data of the past four years show a wave of deadly cardiovascular and metabolic illness.
From 2020 to 2022, a quarter of a million more Americans over 35 years old succumbed to cardiovascular disease than predicted based on historical trends, according to Bloomberg analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2023, age-adjusted stroke mortality was almost 5% above pre-pandemic levels, according to preliminary data, while rates from deaths related to hypertensive heart disease, rhythm abnormalities, blood clots, diabetes and kidney failure were 15-28% higher. Covid had a muted impact on other common causes of death such as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, the data show.
“The cardiometabolic aftereffects of SARS-CoV-2 have been profound, persistent, and peculiar — really peculiar,” said cardiologist Susan Cheng, director of public health research at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles.
vaxxed?
Greater immunity and the emergence of less severe variants have since lowered the incidence of deadly complications, but the problem hasn’t gone away. Each coronavirus infection a person experiences, no matter how mild, might be acting like its own cardiovascular risk factor, she said. The longer-term effects are even more mysterious.
Doctors in the article are puzzled about if the cause is because Americans are too fat, or "the lockdowns" (not the hospitals being flooded with sick people for months at a time) caused people to avoid doctors, while noting that the healthcare system itself broke down and has made it harder for people to find care in the first place ever since. Could it be that these "less severe" variants are still causing heart problems? Gosh, maybe, but it's just a big ol' puzzle and no one can be sure of anything yet.
threads on this article are full of people describing the new heart conditions they developed after getting covid.
I know someone who developed almost deadly arrythmia due to scarring in their heart post Covid. They had a disease that made them more prone to it, but echo-cardiograms from before and after are remarkably different. The inflammation from Covid almost certainly caused the knock on effects and arrythmia, and now he's deteriorating into different levels of disabled.
Thanks Biden, back to normal we gooooooo!
Motherfucker only won because Trump fucked up the covid response, and now that's off the table because we memory-holed the trauma everyone went through and liberals are now acting like people trying to avoid a disease that gives you heart disease and brain damage, and killing thousands of people a week, are being ridiculous.