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Originally Posted by tweeked
The poster said “even mild cases” . The cases in this study were recovered from hospitalisation with “severe acute respiratory syndrome” So nowhere near 60% of all covid sufferers. NSW has 1 person hospitalised out of 198 cases. So let’s call it at worst case 60% of less than 1% (6 in a 1000) are in danger of ongoing heart issues, which is about the same as severe influenza. So yes, scaremongering.
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He may have said that, I'm not going to back up or speak for him, all I'm doing is providing the study that he was clearly referring to.
In saying that however, only a third required hospitalisation.
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Of the 100 patients recently recovered from COVID-19, 67 (67%) recovered at home, while 33 (33%) required hospitalization.
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Our findings demonstrate that participants with a relative paucity of preexisting cardiovascular condition and with mostly home-based recovery had frequent cardiac inflammatory involvement, which was similar to the hospitalized subgroup with regards to severity and extent.
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The study also notes 'independent of severity of the illness', 18 of them were even asymptomatic...