That's the current buzz, and trust me, I am right, a cardiologist is not in tune with how we test for such things, and neither are most. We have been hearing since the combo swabs became available, hey we have an adult with RSV, weird. And we have to keep pointing out that, guess what, we never before looked. Oh, yeah, right.........the reply.
I'm not suggesting covid does not have cardiac effects, by all observations it certainly can/does. What I'm suggesting is covid has made us all too eager to jump the observational boat, to swim to an assumed certain shore......
Yet. Wait until that’s available and the uproar starts.
While your comment about her RSV observation was appreciated, she's very good at what she does in her field and the numbers are not just slightly elevated. It's very clear to her the relationship and I trust her experience. Unlike some here who are painting COVID as down to just the flu, it is still causing some significant, though perhaps temporary damage while no longer killing as many people.
I'll tell you how I learned about this. One of my patients is pastor to a small rural church 100 miles or so from where we live. He and his wife are college educated, and his undergraduate degree is in chemistry, in fact. They did not want their parishioners to know that they were vaccinated, because the good folks in that tiny town were convinced that the Covid vaccine contained a Bill Gates computer chip. Once implanted, the chip would be activated by exposure to (scary!) 5G signals, should you travel to the big city and become exposed to those wavelengths. This then allowed the government to influence your thoughts. Probably by creating synapses that had never occurred to you.
The excess burden across the spectrum of CV disease and in particular for AF is not subtle in the VA study I referenced. 150K patients with over 10 million controls split between historical and contemporary groups. Your wife is spot on in regard to arrhythmia!
Sorry, man, not expressing myself as carefully/clearly as I should have, as I got ready for work this evening. I am certainly not questing anyone's experience, abilities, or observations, and I have no doubt about the nature of the observations presented. It's just that covid by nature of presentation, and political/media obsessive discussions, has over and over led us down paths of unverified assumptions. Clearly, people with cardiomyopathies from covid are more at risk of aberrancies of electrical conduction. And I have no doubt your wife, as most cardiologists, is/are seeing the repercussions of that effect.
So, you weren’t ever locked down? You could do whatever you wanted except play basketball and eat out for a week or two?
Not sure if this was directed at me or not. Anyway.
Actually not directed to you. Hopefully we reach that but as of now to me COVID still has serious long term effects which I'm not aware of any long term from flu. Also flu is seasonal while COVID has yet to disappear with weather changes. It waxes and wanes but it hasn't gone away in 3 years. Even with China's real lockdowns it still existed at low levels.
The vaccine can make you test positive for antibodies, right?
No. The seropositive tests look for nucleocapsid antibodies and the vaccines used in North America and Europe only generate spike antibodies.
The ones in the UK look for both (they do two tests on samples) but I think the very high percentages include the spike measurements so would include both vaccinated and infected (they also measure the levels, not just positive/negative, of course). The plots are interesting but it's hard to separate waves from vaccination program impact without more detail.
Tests we have taken claim to show if from having covid or the vaccine. 2 of 4 in our family show antibodies from having the virus.
True, serology tests can also look for spike antibodies and any results reporting ~97% results pretty obviously include spike testing. I meant to say that serology survey results often measure only nucleocapsid antibodies in order to distinguish the ratio of the population that has been infected rather than vaccinated.
www.cdc.gov
