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Comment by nostromo

> That said, there is evidence that the other coronaviruses that caused epidemics (SARS and MERS) can cause clinically meaningful myocarditis and heart failure as a result.

It'd be interesting to know how it compares to the flu. Here's an interesting study from just this year:

> A CDC study looking at more than 80,000 adult patients hospitalized with flu over eight seasons found that sudden, serious heart complications were common, occurring in 12% of patients, or 1 in 8.

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/study-confirms-link-between-inf...

parent nostromo 6 years ago

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