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Health in colorado says it is not going to perform transplant surgery front vaccinated patients, the purpose of the vaccine policy is to protect the health of its patients, what if you need a heart transplant, you die without it, you're more worried about dying from covid. what is happening? >> i'm a cardiologist and i manage patients and i'm deeply worried that type of policy would backfire. we know with pfizer and modernity fbi as official warnings of myocarditis, we have 6000 cases the cdc certified as having myocarditis, hard inflammation it damages the house with the spike protein causing...

>> o'donnell: quick thinking with that blue slime. all right, as new covid cases decline across the country, morc americans are hiding back to the doctor's office but for some the skipped appointments during the pandemic created serious health riks. here's cbs' dr. jon lapook. >> one more troubling consequence of the pandemic,ne delayed medical care. four in ten americans put off routine or emergency visits in the first half of 2020, sometimes with devastating results. a year ago, despite having a heart beat irregularity called atrial fibrillation, eric masella felt healthy. >> and then... cov...

Heart attack. i think that news, when senator sanders got it got him to thinking maybe i should be scaling back this is an issue. 80% of the time. four out of five times that heart function will improve significantly over the course of the month. most important thing to do is see how that heart function recovers goes back to normal go full speed. if not temper back a little bit. ainsley: the most stressful job in the country. >> running for president. ainsley: if he were your patient what would you tell him. >> i would never tell a patient of mine not do their job take their use away take thei...

By this. someone who has had a mild heart attack their heart function may be limited somewhat, but not significantly. obviously, if it was a more severe heart attack his heart function would be more limited. a couple of clues, erin. one that you mentioned two and a half days in the hospital and that's pretty quick. if this were a more severe heart attack he'd probably be in there longer. so that's, you know, one thing that the doctors, i'm sure, take into consideration and he's getting back in the campaign trail after taking some time off. we don't know how much time that mean, necessarily, so...

It, the heart is a muscle. it's not getting enough blood flow. as a result of that there's certain heart muscle tissue that dies. that's what a heart attack is. once you restore the blood flow, the symptoms of chest pain, shortness of breath, other symptoms, those improve. the question now is how significant was the heart attack? will it affect his heart function going forward? meaning will it make him less likely to be as exert himself as fully. again, the only clue we have is that two and a half days later he's leaving the hospital and that's a good sign. >> he had two stents inserted. is th...