Coronavirus may inflict the same damage as heart attacks:
- Study finds disturbing signs of the infection's cardiac effects in more than 75% of survivors
- Two studies by German researchers found disturbing signs of heart damage in people who survived or died of coronavirus
- More than 75% of survivors had high levels of a protein in their blood that typically indicates someone has suffered a heart attack
- In people who died after contracting coronavirus, more than 60% had virus in their heart muscle, showing the coronavirus directly infects cardica muscle