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Covid-19 leaves its impact on the heart, raising fears of lasting damage

Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the spectre of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough.

“The fact that 78% of ‘recovered’ [patients] had evidence of ongoing heart involvement means that the heart is involved in a majority of patients, even if Covid-19 illness does not scream out with the classical heart symptoms, such as anginal chest pain.”