Detailed thread with links to articles and studies: 1/ A fresh, running thread on COVID’s well-documented cardiovascular harms for anyone who needs links when discussing the rise in heart failure and strokes among younger and middle-aged people since 2020:
Detailed thread with more articles and studies: Everyday we seem to learn more and more what SARS-CoV-2 does to our bodies. With each infection comes additional risk. We can pretend it’s over, but it’s not. Here’s a quick 🧵 on Covid & Strokes
"studies confirm...an elevated risk of blood clots, strokes or heart attacks. Given that most people have had Covid by now, everyone should be more vigilant about the early warning signs...
If you've had Covid, watch out for stroke symptoms"
Discussion: Health care worker of two decades at major US Hospital told me this memo about KIDS HAVING STROKES just went out to hospital staff and he wants to throw up.
No. This is not normal. He & his colleagues never saw this influx of kids with strokes before Covid ruined the 🌎.
"International Multi-Center Study Confirms Stroke Risk in Younger Healthier COVID-19 Patients"
The largest study on severe stroke and COVID-19 published to date...even moderate COVID-19 infection increased risk of death..."
"Stroke, Brain Inflammation, More: AIIMS Doctor Warns Of Major Post COVID Effects
There can be acute post COVID complications related to brain including 'stroke in arteries/veins or brain attack and brain inflammation', said AIIMS' head of Neurology"
Those recovered from Covid-19: 52% greater likelihood of stroke, 63% higher likelihood of heart attack 72% higher likelihood of heart failure 145% higher likelihood of cardiac arrest.
"Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes
Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected."
