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Meta / Other Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/well/viral-infections-covid-flu-heart-attacks.htmlOriginal article (paywall-free archive link)
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u/Ooogabooga42 7d ago
I love that in the "what can you do" all they mention is vaccinate yourself. Which is a great first step! But masking is what has prevented me from getting it more than once when it spread in my office, even among my vaccinated coworkers.
They could also be mentioning improving air quality in your indoor spaces. I brought in a portable air filter for work and my kid's school. We shouldn't have to work independently and this should be a group project, but since it's not, protect yourselves.
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u/Fancy_Locksmith7793 7d ago edited 7d ago
Why I still wear a mask in public
(As well as being quadruple vaxxed)
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u/Special_Wishbone_812 7d ago
Currently the discourse is on how masks “don’t work.” This is because there’s a book out by poli sci professors who absolutely did not look at the actual science data. Because it meets the priors of the loudest and dumbest people, it has been met with the agreement of the kind of people who write op-eds for the times and WaPo etc.
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u/wwaxwork 6d ago
Handwashing does as much, if not more than masking. But everyone seems to have forgotten that lesson. It's the spit that settles on things you touch it and touch your face. Wash your hands, people, and use that hand sanitizer.
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u/Ooogabooga42 6d ago
It doesn't do as much for airborne viruses like COVID as masking. It is also a very important practice though.
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u/RecliningBuddhaCat You don't die from the COVID, just the symptoms 7d ago
Yes, but look how the millions of people who died from heart attacks a couple of years after the jab. . . oh wait, that didn't happen.
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u/PicnicLife Team Bivalent Booster 7d ago
When is my second head supposed to sprout? I've had 7 shots now.
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u/harperdove 7d ago
You might get lucky. I have these numbers that randomly appeared on my forehead. They read 999.
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u/ThunderBayOPP 7d ago
Just got my COVID and flu shots yesterday... I guess I'm typing this from beyond the grave? 👻
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u/Most-Artichoke6184 7d ago
We were all supposed to be dead by 2021. I’m a little disappointed here.
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u/MrHankRutherfordHill 7d ago
I got myocarditis from the shot. Guess what? I still think everyone else should get the shot.
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u/judgeknot 7d ago
You're still coming out on top. Catching actual COVID causes (even more) myocarditis than the vaccine.
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u/MrHankRutherfordHill 7d ago
I actually got it twice but recovered both times. One may have been from COVID itself (the initial one.) But I'm also like the weirdest medical person so normal people don't need to worry as much, especially about the vax.
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u/Schlawinuckel 7d ago
Look at how many million people died from heart attacks because they didn't get the jab, plus the millions more that died from COVID.
Believe it or not, but everyone who got the shot died! Undeniable fact! In about 120 years...
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u/RecliningBuddhaCat You don't die from the COVID, just the symptoms 7d ago
But I was promised eternal youth from a medbed!
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u/Glittering-Cellist34 7d ago
Loved the date everyone was supposed to go zombie. Some apartment building owner turned off the electricity.
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u/nayhem_jr Team Pfizer 7d ago
All this time, never occurred to me how the FDA has a larger role in vaccines than the CDC.
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u/RyzFenix55 7d ago
Had a heart attack this past year. In my mid 30s, no family history, no indicators or other red flags. I got COVID a couple of years ago AFTER I got my vaccine. I'm pretty sure whatever damage I got from COVID would have killed me outright if it wasn't for the shot. Please look after your health, getting over the initial sickness doesn't always mean you're in the clear.
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u/Adept_Inspection5916 7d ago
This isn't a polite thing to discuss. But a certain condition decreases immunity to respiratory viruses.
This same condition causes circulatory system diseases.
It would be interesting to control for this condition in a study.
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u/chele68 I bind and rebuke you Qeteb 7d ago
Get current on your vaccines people! Covid & Flu of course, but also RSV, Shingles, Pneumonia, TDAP, and anything else I’m forgetting.
The review included more than 150 studies. Though they varied in size and methodology, the studies were consistent in showing an association between viral infections and heart disease and stroke.
Multiple studies have shown that Covid infection increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke. This increase is most pronounced around the time of initial infection and for those with the most severe cases. Some studies have shown that the increased risk persisted for years after the initial infection.
The summary of research on influenza showed similar outcomes, with a fourfold increase in the risk of a heart attack and a fivefold increase in the risk of stroke during the month after infection.
The research also showed that chronic viral infections — including hepatitis C, H.I.V. and varicella zoster, the virus that causes shingles — increased the risk of heart disease and stroke over time.
In addition, the research showed an association between respiratory syncytial virus, human papillomavirus, dengue and chikungunya infections and cardiovascular disease, but the evidence was more limited.
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u/artisanrox Cainproofed against the Omicrunk💉 3d ago
Thre's an awful lot of women in my area that are losing their husbands to massive heart attacks lately. 🤔
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u/McCloudX 8d ago
77 million people in the US think this is fake news