Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins
A more accurate headline would be "it spares 93%–97% of people," though the interview meticulously omitted almost all quantifiable information. The hazard ratios in the paper smitty1110 cited <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3?s=08" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3?s=08</a> are mostly 1.49–1.85, which as I understand it means that people with covid were 1½–2 times as likely to experience the condition, pericarditis or stroke or whatever, than thr control group. The exceptions are things that normally happen only once in a lifetime, like cardiac arrest (HR=2.45), so we're still talking about a tiny fraction of people.<p>This justifies the statement in the paper's abstract, "Our results provide evidence that the risk and 1-year burden of cardiovascular disease in survivors of acute COVID-19 are substantial," but (unless I'm misunderstanding the paper) shows that the interview headline is an irresponsible, sensationalist lie.