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Heart transplants declined sharply during pandemic

Date: July 24, 2020 Source 1: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com Summary: Heart transplants, donor hearts, and transplant waitlists all fell sharply at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, researchers have found. The number of heart transplants in the United States declined sharply during the beginning of the […]

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Preventing the next pandemic

How $30 billion can prevent the next COVID-19 Date: July 23, 2020 Source 1: Princeton University Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com Summary: A new article shows that an annual investment of $30 billion should be enough to offset the costs of preventing another global pandemic such as COVID-19. Thus far, COVID-19 has cost at least $2.6 trillion

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Autopsies reveal surprising cardiac changes in COVID-19 patients

Date: July 21, 2020 Source 1: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com Summary: A series of autopsies conducted by LSU Health New Orleans pathologists shows the damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients is not the expected typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with myocarditis, but rather a unique pattern of

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