>> The experience of having COVID is obviously incredibly dangerous, I mean, we're rapidly racing
towards a million dead just here in America confirmed from COVID. But we also know that
surviving COVID doesn't mean that you are totally out of danger. There's experience of things like
long COVID, which we are learning more about and how terribly debilitating it can be.
But also the odds that you might be more likely to experience
other negative health outcomes as a result of your previous COVID
infections. So, new study, we're gonna look at specifically things like heart problems,
your risk after having COVID go up for at least one year following your infection.
We have this study published in Nature magazine,
they found that COVID increased the possibility of heart rhythm irregularities as well as
potentially deadly blood clots in the legs and lungs. In the year after an acute infection,
COVID also increased the risk for heart failure by 72% heart, attack by 63% and stroke by 52%.
Even among those whose original illnesses were mild, now understand what those numbers mean.
That doesn't mean that you have a 63% chance of a heart attack or anything like that. They
are relatively small chances that then become marginally larger as a result of this. But when
you have a country where a significant portion of the entire country has had this infection
that could result in a lot of additional heart attacks and things like that Francesca.
>> Yeah, it's frightening, I mean, I think the cardiovascular impact
and effect of COVID-19 is something that has still remained largely unstudied.
Why does it do this to your circulation and affect your heart the way that it does, it's
terrifying. And this study I know was particularly focused on people who had not yet been vaccinated.
And I think that it just goes to show, get vaccinated, get boosted and I am curious
and eager of the same study for people who have been vaccinated because I assume that
they're not completely out of the woods. Even if there is a small, let's say 15% increase
of chance of some sort of heart event in the year after you get COVID, like that's not good.
I wouldn't wish that upon anyone and I don't want that for myself or anybody, I love, so,
protect yourselves. You guys, I know that mask mandates are dropping, but we have to do what
we can to at least when you're indoors, just try try try to protect yourselves.
>> Exactly, yeah, I know everybody just keep every day, somebody else it's over or done
or moving on. Okay, well, they might be done, they might be moving on, but maybe COVID is not moving
on inside of your system. Yeah, this stuff can be serious and you identified the biggest issue right
now is that so far, they don't have a breakdown of how levels of vaccination affect this.
They just don't know that, they do say that the level of severity matters in some ways,
but on others. So if you had an acute infection, it does seem like it's worse,
if you were vaccinated, you're far less likely to have had an acute infection.
But they also say that even mild infections can cause problems.
Now, how much of this data includes people who had omicron, is it possible that omicron
will be different? All I'm saying is we don't know for sure, but we do know that the people
who have been just racing to get infected so that we can have hard immunity or whatever.
Like we said at the time, how many videos do we do? We don't know the consequences of that,
not just in terms of death from the people who are choosing this,
but the long term implications. And it is true and the little that we do know is pretty scary.
So for instance the researchers who looked into this, they thought, okay, we're gonna
look at this and we're gonna find the trends, but there's certain expectations we have. Which is
people who are already really sick, they're probably going to be badly affected by having
COVID those sorts of things, but they found instead that it affects pretty much everyone.
So one of the doctors says it was a bit of a moment for us when we realized it was evident
in all of these subgroups, younger adults, older adults, black people,
white people, people with obesity and those without, the risk was everywhere.
And so just be serious and honestly, I see people talking about Joe Rogan in the chat, one of
the things where Joe Rogan got media attention like a month ago was when he brought in a guy.
And he said casually to him that being vaccine means that you have a much higher chance of
getting heart problems. And the doctor that was on was like no actually having COVID is
much more likely to cause problems. That's just one part of this, so ge's got this new commitment
to giving accurate COVID information, is he gonna bring on one of these doctors?
Maybe he will, I'm sure he could if he wanted to and they could explain how negative this would be,
by the way, remember they said young people. So when people like him go and say
there's no reason for a healthy young person to get the vaccine, well maybe there's a reason.
Maybe this is identifying a reason. >> Have them on ,you coward,
talk to 11 million people responsibly.
It's great in a world where everything is so opaque, I'm glad we have this study. It's
scary to me but every single new piece of data that gives us more understanding of this virus.
I think it's important we should be talking about it, this was a robust study. These are thousands
and thousands of people who they monitored and they compared and the sort of the control groups
and all the other science things. I'm sure beakers were involved, they did their own research.
So let's talk about it, you're going to you're gonna do the same amount
of research to prove the opposite, my guess is no. Yeah, by the way,
I just want to go over some of what has previously been described. So, there was a
study of recovered COVID patients in Germany, they found 78% of patients had heart abnormalities.
Swedish researchers found an increased risk of heart attack and stroke,
Let's see. An international study released last year identified more
than 200 symptoms of long COVID from hallucinations, tremors, tinnitus,
geez. And by the way, the fatigue, there's been a lot of great threads on twitter about,
when you hear that long COVID causes fatigue, you think, you have a little bit of fatigue.
But I'm blanking on his name now, but there is a journalist for the Washington post who says
like I was conscious and moving about for 15 minutes yesterday. It is incredibly debilitating
fatigue and these are the sorts of things that get swept under the rug
in the rush to go back to normal, just accept all this.
Go get sick so we can move on, first of all, you can get COVID again. So it's not
even the shield that they pretend that it is, but the cost can be just devastating.
Anyway, by the way, here's one other little thought experiment going forward. So we already
know and we acknowledge when I said that, you know, close to a million people have died.
That those are the official death. So if in the early months of this, ytou weren't tested because
we didn't have tests and you died, you didn't get counted. Here's a final thought experiment,
if in two years we have 1000 heart attacks And it was 20% more likely if you had COVID
and some of those people die, how many of those died, not from COVID but not from COVID.
They had heart attacks, they had all these problems, they would have died,
will they be counted? Of course they're not, we'll never know, we will never know how much actual
death and suffering was caused by this because there's so much that just necessarily hides it.