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Indirect effects of COVID-19 on your heart
The headlines are focused on the numbers surrounding COVID-19 cases, but there are some troubling indirect effects of the pandemic that Baylor College of Medicine cardiologists are saying we can’t ignore. Recent studies have found that there has been an increase in cardiovascular related deaths over the past year, and while there are a number of factors, one is thought to be related to the deferment of doctor visits.
“When it comes to heart health, we are seeing that people are deferring their care out of fear of heading to the clinician’s office and being exposed to COVID-19,” said Dr. Salim Virani, professor of medicine – cardiology at Baylor and a staff cardiologist at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. “But the rules of engagement regarding heart health and emergencies should not change.”
January 7, 2021, 3:14 PM)
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo updates the public on a new strand of COVID-19 that hit Texas on Jan. 7, 2020.
Updated 3:14 p.m. CT
Harris County on Thursday confirmed Texas’ first case of a new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus first discovered in the U.K.
A man between the ages of 30 and 40 in southwest Harris County outside the city of Houston, with no travel history, tested positive for the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7. The new variant is believed to be up to 70% more transmissible than previously identified strains of the virus, though not more severe. The currently approved vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are likely effective against the new variant, health officials have said.
Daphne Nelson had just finished making coffee when she read the message from her neighbor back in Houston: Someone had shot her son.
It was morning on Nov. 26, 2016, at Camp Taji, an American-controlled base 17 miles north of Baghdad, where she worked as a manager for a supplies and logistics firm contracted by the military. Every day, she got in early. She made her coffee, she fed her fish, and she got ready for the morning meeting. When she read the Facebook message, she was alone.
“They just did a drive-by shooting on your house,” her neighbor wrote. Then, in the next message: “They just told me that your son was hit.”