From what I understand severe flu can do damage to the heart as well? What we really need to focus all our efforts on are universal virus vaccines, the common cold, etc. Once we crack that the human race will be so much better off...

It makes perfect sense clinically - we are seeing Kawasaki syndrome in some of the infected youth. Kawasaki has been viewed as a "rare & unknown etiology" inflammatory process that some children are genetically susceptible to - but caused by a type of common cold virus? I've seen cardiomyopathy in young healthy people after "nothing other than a cold or two", clearly this SARS-CoV2 has recombined many individual harmful RNA sequences that worked on bats and pangolins to spread or sustain the the infection - with all this in one (now human) virus, we need a vaccine soon - or we will prove Darwin right for all the wrong reasons! Once selected out by SARS-CoV2, what will happen to our species? Less diversity - and with a 'more refined genome', will it select out for more autoimmune or chronic disease or will it prove a positive refining of the genome eliminating susceptibility to neurologic or psychiatric issues?

I wonder how many people had that had minor or undiagnosed cases were included in the study, since that is the majority of cases?

More fear mongering. My coworker got a heart infection from having his teeth cleaned and some plaque shoved below the gum line. He got a heart transplant but died anyway. In another couple months I expect to be reading about gut bacteria causing heart failure. It now seems to be connected to everything else. The old saying that "death begins in the colon" must be true.

My partner and I both got sick in March of what we though was covid, but didn't get tested at the time (we stayed isolated instead) as testing here was disorganised and had to be done at a clinic - you don't go to a clinic full of people with a potentially dangerous infectious disease if you aren't sure you have it yourself. We did get tested recently now that they have drive-through testing, result was negative, but it's been over 4 months since we first got sick, and antibody testing still isn't available, so we really can't be sure we had covid, but we were exposed to overseas visitors and a definitely sick person a few days before.

Anyway, we have both had symptoms on and off since March, and recently had ECGs due to shortness of breath. The result - we both now have heart conditions we didn't have (or weren't aware of) before. The chances of 2 people in the same household coming down with similar heart conditions at the same time without an external cause? Practically zero.

So, looks like we are just seeing the beginning of the true result of this disease, anyone still thinking this is a scam or being exaggerated is a complete idiot.

This Chinese virus just gets better and better. :(

nobody, this is NOT "fear mongering". If you already had covid-19 yourself, you most likely will have heart condition also, possibly for the rest of your life. If you are a young person this will make a significant difference with everything going on in your life. For the worse. For an elderly person this adds to everything else. If you are lucky so far it is good to know WHY you do not want to get covid at all costs. Having compromised health is not worth it at any price. This is reality.

Face masks help, in particular with EVERYBODY wearing it, responsible people who protect YOU, religious, often and thorough, hand washing and I would consider also air filtration/uv lamp. Even compete head gear for particularly risky places. WHO had been forced to admit, only recently, that the virus remains air borne. It is in aerosols up to 3 hours. That is not just heavy particles that clear fast. That means even ordinary talk gets virus in the air - shouting, singing and coughing is much worse. WHO did their best to suppress this aerosol air borne information as long as they could. Very significant info for your protection.

@nehopsa Be careful with UV light to kill the virus. Most UV is bad for humans and only a certain part of the UVA light spectrum seems to be OK. I say "seems" because sometimes it takes decades to understand damage, so we don't know for sure.

These studies - and this article - are MUCH too premature to be used. The test groups are TOO SMALL to show real results!

The fear of the virus and its potential side effects, is by itself, another comorbidity that will contribute to complications in the case of an infection. However, small doses of HCQ as a prophylaxis would remove this fear, and protect against infection. But this is too simple for the pharmatico-industrial complex.