Addressing Atrial Fibrillation in the World of COVID-19
Patients with atrial fibrillation are at far greater risk of a catastrophic COVID outcomes, so steps should be taken to reduce AFib risks in addition to precautions against COVID like making, hand washing and social distancing. Images include an electromap from an AF ablation procedure and a COVID-19 from the CDC.
In our most challenging and distressing days, it is nice to think about a post-COVID-19 world.
But while this pandemic will end at some point, it is quite unlikely that we will completely eradicate the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) the way we did, for instance, with the virus that causes smallpox.