I wonder if that disease that specifically infects the lining of blood vessels has anything to do with it

Such concerns highlight Covid’s broad and enduring consequences that doctors, researchers, and demographers are struggling to fathom. Difficulty teasing out the multiple drivers of the excess deaths in the pandemic era makes it challenging to anticipate if and when mortality might resume a more normal pattern. This is frustrating efforts to calculate how many people are likely to die each year.

The grim statistic is crucial in projecting population growth and making appropriate plans for everything from road-building to pensions. It also sets a baseline for measuring excess mortality needed to quantify the impact of flu and other diseases and to identify priority areas for preventative public health programs.

“It’s a challenge because we’re not sure what the new normal is,” the CDC’s Anderson said. “I’m not sure that we can really get a good handle on this for another year or two.”

So much for back to normal.

It's probably a combination of factors if we're being honest. Sudden behavioral changes and healthcare systems practically collapsing probably do contribute comparatively to covid's damage to the cardiovascular system. "Back to normal" probably won't happen for a generation and it's sad that leaders can't admit that.

This shit is infuriating. I read this and based on all the information presented in here, covid is squarely to blame. Yet everyone they quote just seems to throw up their hands and go "well who can really say." The two things they do blame are obesity (which makes no sense based on the information presented in the article, and they even present information that contradicts this) and lockdowns (which does make sense, except they do no analysis-they blame lockdowns without realizing that our failed response is the reason lockdowns turned out how they did). The one place they do present some really good information and seem ready to finally admit covid is causing the increase, they turn around and quote some Australian actuary (which...what? Surely there's better people to comment on a public health crisis) who says "yeah it's really impossible to know" and that's the conclusion to that section. Absolutely horrible article. Anything to draw attention away from our continuing failed response to 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!

I hate reading shit like this because it's a colossal trigger to my panic and anxiety. But simultaneously, it acts as the perfect reason to continue avoiding going out anywhere remotely crowded.

Now, my cardiologist says I'm in great cardiac health, but I'm still terrified that the one time I got COVID a couple years ago, I had to go to the ER because my heart rate refused to drop below 120 resting. I have been terrified that I have had some sort of long-lasting consequences that simply haven't shown themselves yet. And each article that comes out chronicling the effects of COVID on cardiac health like this just continues to terrify the piss out of me.

HMMMMM I wonder what it could be

Doctors in the article are puzzled about if the cause is because Americans are too fat, or "the lockdowns" caused people to avoid doctors

What about "cracker elites funded a bioweapon and then released it on the world"?
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