California hospitals saw sharp drop in
heart attacks during COVID-19 shutdown
Sacramento Bee [CA],
by
Michael Finch II
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/21/2020 4:05:36 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For years it’s been one of the leading causes of death, a critical condition plaguing nearly every corner of the country. Every hour, seven people die from heart disease in the state but since the new coronavirus pandemic, some Northern California hospitals are admitting fewer heart attack patients than before. The trend, an unexpected byproduct of COVID-19, is one of the main findings in a new study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente who measured the change in hospital admissions for heart attacks.The results, published as a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Suzi 5/21/2020 4:12:50 PM (No. 418044)
Heart attacks (myocardial infarction) are diagnosed by labs studies and EKG's. If you don't go to the hospital and have these studies done, there would be no record of it.
People CAN and DO survive heart attacks without treatment. Later, a patient will be found to have an "old" MI or age unknown. The problem is that without proper treatment, heart failure may develop and a patient is at risk for profound debility. Also, another heart attack may be imminent.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/21/2020 4:17:23 PM (No. 418045)
People are so terrified of going to the ER that they are just staying home and some are dying from these heart attacks without showing up to get treated.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 5/21/2020 4:17:26 PM (No. 418046)
The BEE reports that "hospitals are admitting fewer heart attack patients than before" and the reporter is puzzled.
WHY?
Could it be that these potential heart attack patients are DYING at home instead of going to the hospital? We have learned that cancer screenings have been reduced by NINETY PERCENT due to fears of Covid-19 if they are admitted to the hospital?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/21/2020 4:21:42 PM (No. 418049)
Also, if it was like in NYC, if they died of a heart attack but had COVID antibodies, why of course... they died of COVID.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chiller 5/21/2020 4:23:03 PM (No. 418050)
FTA: “In other national emergencies like earthquakes or terrorist attacks, heart attack rates go up due to fear and anxiety. And there’s a ton of fear and anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Anxiety almost certainly went dramatically through the roof, yet only 1/2 the "heart attack deaths". I call BS on the cause of deaths. Obviously, hundreds of heart attacks were put in the WuFlu column.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/21/2020 4:37:06 PM (No. 418060)
Bait and switch.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/21/2020 4:51:37 PM (No. 418075)
Deaths from heart attacks counted as deaths from Chinese virus?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 5/21/2020 5:06:10 PM (No. 418086)
Making an educated guess on this, from 40 years experience. Up until recently everyone with a twinge in the chest ended up in an emergency room, had usual studies, cardiac enzymes etc, like a CK MB, which are often borderline or slightly elevated, and even if normal are coded as cardiac injury or ischemia. This leads to cardiac cath, Many of which discover some degree of “stenosis” and a stent or two or more. That is, more for the hospital, more for the cardiologist, but, by all longterm studies, even dating back to open heart bypass, not necessarily more life for the patient. Similar to calling every death a result of Covid 19. Presently, people don’t go to the ER for every twinge because they are afraid of Covid 19, thus, not as many heart attacks!
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Covid cures heart disease! Isn’t that what the headline says?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/21/2020 5:23:34 PM (No. 418108)
Ofcourse, they did!! If you didn't have COVID, you were not welcome at any hospital
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/21/2020 5:30:08 PM (No. 418112)
Maybe everyone being forced to be sitting at home not doing anything strenuous that might cause a heart attack so as not to break on of Governor Gavin Newsom's rules has something to do with it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/21/2020 6:30:15 PM (No. 418155)
IF (as I read) that the Feds are picking up the tab for ALL uninsured CV cases and deaths, then there is a strong incentive to label EVERY death as 'CV'.
Follow the Money.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/21/2020 7:02:14 PM (No. 418174)
Exactly #12. When the federal government pays four times as much to treat Covid patients, do you think anyone is going to die of a heart attack?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/21/2020 7:27:29 PM (No. 418188)
So not getting covid prevents heart attacks in people who are in lock down to prevent covid. Or if you’re not in lockdown your chances of having a heart attack improve. Or maybe if you’re too broke to afford a heart attack, staying in lock down and getting more broke prevents your havIng a heart attack that you already can’t afford.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/21/2020 7:38:23 PM (No. 418196)
Yep. They all became Covid 19 heart attacks. There were Covid car accidents deaths, Covid cancer deaths, etc. etc. All due to Covid and declared as such.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/21/2020 7:43:25 PM (No. 418200)
I also strongly suspect that both overly long, stressful commutes and actual on-site work stresses contribute to a number of 'heart attacks'.....all of which have been nearly completely eliminated here in the Bay Area for the past several months.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SpentPenny 5/21/2020 11:26:40 PM (No. 418338)
The scum made people afraid to go to the ER so they stayed at home and died. Mush of "the press" should be stood up in front of a wall and shot.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/22/2020 1:48:15 AM (No. 418408)
Heart attack numbers went down because all deaths are blamed on CV-19. The fact that a hospital wouldn't admit you is automatically considered a CV-19 death. See how it works?
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Hmmm - how could that be. For every COVID-19 case some other disease seems to disappear.