Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID Meghan O Rourke
Photographs by Jonno Rattman
Image above: Nearly a year after she was infected with the coronavirus, Caitlin Barber still uses a wheelchair outside.
This article was published online on March 8, 2021.
The quest at Mount Sinai began with a mystery. During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, Zijian Chen, an endocrinologist, had been appointed medical director of the hospital’s new Center for Post-COVID Care, dedicated both to research and to helping recovering patients “transition from hospital to home,” as Mount Sinai put it. One day last spring, he turned to an online survey of COVID‑19 patients who were more than a month past their initial infection but still experiencing symptoms. Because COVID‑19 was thought to be a two-week respiratory illness, Chen anticipated that he would find only a small number of people who were still sick. That’s not what he saw.
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March 05, 2021
In one of the largest series of professional athletes with COVID-19, the incidence of myocarditis was rare, just 0.6%, providing reassuring evidence that the virus does not portend long-term cardiac consequences for the overwhelming majority of these competitive athletes.
Among 789 professionals from Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Football League, and men and women from the National Basketball Association, 30 had abnormal results on cardiac screenings, including ECG, echocardiography, and troponin testing. After further testing, inflammatory heart disease was detected in just five athletes; three cases of myocarditis and two of pericarditis.
The new findings, which were published online March 4, 2021, in
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