More unworthy victims of the COVID-19 crisis---not of that disease, but of the panic systematically incited over it.
MCM Denver doctors may have found the answer to a pandemic mystery: What happened to all the heart attacks? A new study looks at the number of cardiac arrest deaths occurring at home in the time of coronavirus, comparing the stay-at-home period to prior months https://coloradosun.com/2020/08/17/denver-coronavirus-deaths-heart-attack/ PUBLISHED ONAUG 17, 2020 12:00PM MDTCORONAVIRUSPRIMARY CATEGORY IN WHICH BLOG POST IS PUBLISHED <https://coloradosun.com/category/news/coronavirus/> John Ingold <https://coloradosun.com/2020/08/17/denver-coronavirus-deaths-heart-attack/#bio-link-641> @johningold <https://twitter.com/johningold> The Colorado Sun — [email protected] See more <https://coloradosun.com/author/john-ingold/> <https://coloradosun.com/author/john-ingold/> <https://coloradosun.com/author/john-ingold/> Share: - When the new coronavirus first swept through Colorado earlier this year, baffling doctors with its myriad of symptoms and methods of spread, Dr. Brian Stauffer, the head of cardiology at Denver Health, soon began to notice a different kind of pandemic mystery. People, it seemed, had stopped having heart attacks. COVID-19 IN COLORADO The latest from the coronavirus outbreak in Colorado: - MAP <https://coloradosun.com/2020/03/08/colorado-coronavirus-cases-map/>: Known cases in Colorado. - TESTING <https://cdphe.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicInformation/index.html?appid=7da93ffdaf954ef5ab5d74ab22dcbd4e> : Here’s where to find a community testing site. The state is now encouraging <https://coloradosun.com/2020/05/18/colorado-coronavirus-testing/> anyone with symptoms to get tested. - STORY <https://coloradosun.com/2020/08/17/mako-medical-coronavirus-testing-colorado/> : Colorado touts its new private coronavirus testing contracts as a way to speed up results. Already there are problems. >> FULL COVERAGE <http://coloradosun.com/coronavirus> At Denver Health and other large hospitals across the metro area, the number of people showing up with cardiac emergencies dropped significantly as the state imposed increasingly strict measures encouraging people to stay at home to slow the virus’ spread. And this was not unique to Colorado — hospitals across the country <https://www.tctmd.com/news/mystery-missing-stemis-during-covid-19-pandemic> and in Europe <https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31356-8/fulltext> documented the same phenomenon. Had stay-at-home orders somehow also slowed heart attacks or were people in need of medical help simply not seeking it for fear of COVID-19? A new study <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293523/> from Stauffer and several Denver Health colleagues offers the first clue to the answer in Colorado. Looking at data on ambulance calls in Denver, they found that, while overall calls for service went down during the stay-at-home period, the number of people dying from cardiac arrests at home shot up. Stauffer’s team found that cardiac arrests at home in Denver more than doubled in the two weeks after the statewide stay-at-home order was issued compared with historical averages. Even compared with more recent data, the weekly average of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests jumped to 46 during those two weeks, versus 26 or 27 in the three months prior. *Click on the link for the rest.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W8imeT3MxLJzi8tymZPHURrVsW6PBTBrzu7TFXthwcNKQ%40mail.gmail.com.
