Reports of cardiac complications, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, associated with COVID-19 infection were published before the public vaccine program began mass vaccinations in December 2000.
Myocarditis and pericarditis are inflammatory conditions that affect the heart and these cardiac complications were linked with COVID-19 infection well before the COVID vaccines were made publicly available. Some examples of published reports from 2020 are listed below.
Cardiac Involvement in a Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Published online March 27, 2020
Does SARS-CoV-2 cause viral myocarditis in COVID-19 patients? Published May 3, 2020
Recognizing COVID-19–related myocarditis: The possible pathophysiology and proposed guideline for diagnosis and management, Published online May 5, 2020
Acute pericarditis due to COVID-19 infection: An underdiagnosed disease? Published online 2020 July 3, 2020
Pericarditis and myocarditis long after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a cross-sectional descriptive study in health-care workers, Posted July 14, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 post-infective myocarditis: the tip of COVID-19 immune complications? Published July 23, 2020
Emory Doctor: 20% Of Admitted COVID-19 Patients Suffer 'Cardiac Injury,' Warns Athletes Of Risk, Published August 15, 2020
Fauci Calls for Americans to Pull Together to Fight COVID-19, Published Aug. 24, 2020*
Penn State doctor says 30-35% of Big Ten athletes positive for COVID-19 had myocarditis symptoms, Published Sept. 3, 2020
Delayed acute myocarditis and COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome, Published October 26, 2020
*On Aug. 17, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institute of Health (NIH), and a valued member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, joined ASM Microbe Online for a keynote address in which he discussed the extent of knowledge that has been cataloged for the novel coronavirus to date:
Long-Term Deleterious Effects of COVID-19 Are Troubling
Our understanding of the long-term deleterious effects of COVID-19 is emerging on a daily basis, something that Fauci acknowledged as troubling. “We have seen that even individuals who are young and otherwise healthy, and get symptomatic enough to be in bed for a week or 2 but don't require hospitalization, may have residual symptoms for weeks to months after clearing the virus. We're seeing a substantially high proportion of cardiovascular abnormalities. Evidence of myocarditis. Evidence of emerging cardiomyopathy. Evidence of inflammatory processes in the brain. And these are people who have recovered from the disease.”
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