Some patients require kidney dialysis or suffer liver damage. The disease can affect the brain and other parts of the nervous system, causing delirium and lasting nerve damage. Covid can also do strange things to the heart. Hospitals began admitting patients with typical symptoms of heart attack, including chest pains and trouble breathing. “They do the EKG, and the EKG says this person is having a heart attack,” said Brooks, “but their coronary vessels are clean. There’s no blockage.” Instead, an immune reaction has inflamed the entire heart muscle, a condition called myocarditis. “And
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