Aatmja Kumari(Intern Journalist): Nigerian-American basketball player Michael Ojo was found to be Corona positive. But later he was recovered but after this he suffered a heart attack and died while training. Ojo was 27 years old and had previously had no heart disease. Such examples raise the question whether corona affects a person’s heart? Highlighting the case, American cardiologist Eric Topol wrote a papal claiming that cardiac complications occurred in those cases as well. Where corona symptoms were minimal or none at all.
The paper notes that the most recent coronavirus acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has marked tropism for the heart and has resulted in myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) leading to a heart attack. In this way, the problems of Coronavirus also occur. Which have fewer symptoms or no symptoms at all. Recent discoveries have revealed heart-related diseases among young athletes in which sudden death has raised concerns, reflecting the current limitations of our knowledge and potentially the risk of covid-19. The paper states that corona patients who were experiencing the disease without symptoms. A substantial proportion of those people are also present in it.
Typical symptoms include fatigue, difficulty in breathing, chest pain, and abnormal heart rate. The paper states that people who spend a few months with the disease show mainly heart problems. Clearly, this is more common than anticipated, but the real reason behind it is still unknown.