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https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/04/carnage-in-lab-dish-shows-how-coronavirus-may-damage-heart/Maybe we should think of Covid-19 as a heart disease.
When SARS-CoV-2 virus was added to human heart cells grown in lab dishes, the long muscle fibers that keep hearts beating were diced into short bits, alarming scientists at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes, especially after they saw a similar phenomenon in heart tissue from Covid-19 patients autopsies.
Their experiments could potentially explain why some people still feel short of breath after their Covid infections clear and add to worries that survivors may be at risk for future heart failure.
The new study was posted as a preprint on bioRxiv, meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed or otherwise vetted by a scientific journal. The authors said they felt an urgent need to share their work so others could help them understand the mechanisms causing heart damage and work on ways to prevent or treat it.
"When we saw this disruption in those microfibers, that was when we made the decision to pull the trigger and put out this preprint, said Todd McDevitt, a senior investigator at Gladstone and a co-author of the study. Im not a scientist who likes to stoke these things [but] I did not sleep, honestly, while we were finishing this paper and putting it out there."
No wonder chumputin wants everyone in US infected!
NOTE: Repost from early morning for exposure. Guessing news is not covering this horrific story. Stay safe, All!
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Media should be covering this medical finding instead!
Something around 1/3 of a college sports conference are said to have myocarditis from covid. Young, healthy, super fit college athletes!
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)imagine if he starts threatening other countries.
If russia installs him again to WH, I'm thinking suicides will explode.
And, you are right. I'm waiting for him to send US troops to do putin's dirty work and/or nuke one of our own cities.
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)sometimes what kind of people I live with in the US.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)And maddening for our health to be interdependent on such ego centric, cruel, hateful people.
GopherGal
(2,007 posts)I gather what he actually said was that 1/3 of the athletes who were positive for coronavirus showed myocarditis. But now I'm seeing articles saying that was overstated, if only because not all positive-testing athletes were examined for myocarditis.
But it's information like this that shows how misguided the "herd immunity" approach is when we have no information about long-term effects of even asymptomatic cases of the virus.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Denial is their game.
Not sure about the athletes, but I have seen other articles over the past few weeks saying 2/3 or so suffer myocarditis. Makes sense after reading this article.
And this article, imo, makes it clear why chumputin wants everyone in the US to be infected!
Phoenix61
(16,993 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)And chumputin's new doc is on tv pushing herd immunity. Media should be covering THIS, not more lies!)
I'd lay heavy odds that the average American will never know about this heart complication. Yet they send kids into petri dish schools!
ALBliberal
(2,334 posts)which are similar to Kawasaki disease (which attacks the heart in children).
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Mind boggling that parents sent kids to petri dish schools & people are runming around without masks.
ALBliberal
(2,334 posts)90s until he was about 20 years old. Upended his childhood. He is strictly quarantining at home with his wife (CNP) and their two year old daughter.
Meanwhile someone just posted an article on the effects CV19 has on childrens hearts.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Scary stuff!
ALBliberal
(2,334 posts)WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)and since all blood pumps through the heart, it makes sense that the heart would be the most damaged from the virus.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)What is the heart but a lot of the specific proteins covid is attracted to. Boom!
Lyme is the same way: the only constant with lyme is cardio involvement.
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)I have ever heard of. That people are sending their kids to school is so horrifying to me. What does it mean that they will be a grade behind if they are dead or so sick they can't really live?
Sane people would just call this a gap year and concentrate on ridding society of this virus.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Makes no sense to let them do online school or just take a year off. In the grand scheme of their lives, this is much more sensible.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)They used cells grown in culture. So no blood was pumping through the cells. They saw damage to the cells after infection with SARS-Cov-2.
DFW
(54,281 posts)It's the one aspect of Covid-19 that no one wants to talk about, since it can affect even asymptomatic people. Lifelong damage to cardiac tissue means a permanent physical disability and irreversible susceptibility to heart disease, including sudden cardiac arrest, depending on the degree of tissue damage. It's the invisible 800 pound gorilla in the room.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Guessing you live somewhere sane?
DFW
(54,281 posts)I live in the German Rheinland, Düsseldorf area.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Guessing yourr news is more realistic. Lucky you being there! 👍
DFW
(54,281 posts)This pleasant woman told me that while she enjoyed visiting the USA, she did not want to live there. I was, however, welcome to come live with her on the banks of the Rhein River.
She didn't have to ask me twice.
Very nice! Enjoy!
DFW
(54,281 posts)A nerd like me rarely gets a chance like that. It was an offer I couldn't refuse.